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The one author I enjoyed most next to Bret Easton Ellis as a teenager was Douglas Coupland, my first introduction to him was his novel, Generation X, and everything else he’s written (especially Shampoo Planet, Polaroids from the Dead, Miss Wyoming, and All Families Are Psychotic) are wonderful works I’ve come to enjoy re-reading multiple times over the years. Great author if you’re looking to binge read all his books in one summer. Most recently I’ve revisited his Marshall McLuhan biography, aptly titled You Know Nothing of My Work!
Jun 17, 2021
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Vonnegut is my favorite writer and I've been looking for similar stuff.
Catch-22 gets a lot of SH5 comparisons for a good reason. Similar themes and really funny.
Pynchon is a great postmodern writer, though more challenging than Vonnegut - maybe try Crying Of Lot 49.
Palahniuk is a more contemporary writer and a lot darker, but extremely good and has some fantastic prose. Fight Club is worth the hype. He was recommended to me by a fellow Vonnegut fan as the closest thing.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is also amazing.
Have fun!
Mar 6, 2025
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I read both at a timultuous time in my life, and it showed me how to find humor amidst chaos and uncertainty. I swear they both rewired my brain.
Feb 9, 2024
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I first read Dangerous Laughter, one of his short story collections back in college. It have thought of it often since but only recently picked up a couple more of his short story collections. he might be the best to ever do it. Every time I read a story of his I am like yup, this is it, this is writing. The absolute pinnacle of the form. he is my alpha and omega. you will never ever regret reading a story of his (unless you have shitty taste in literature)
Jan 29, 2024
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My favorite spot to go catch a movie, they have retrospectives of the best directors and have an overall wonderfully curated selection of films. It’s run as a film archive as a non-profit, and consists of one very minimal screening room and a small cafe adjacent to it. Just hearing the way my shoes click on the white marble floor will already make me giddy — I’m so glad it reopened. Just before the pandemic caught one of my all time favorite movies, Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits there, on original restored film.
Jun 17, 2021
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I’m obsessed with dental hygiene and floss incessantly, and for a few years I’ve been buying these handmade, natural bristle Italian toothbrushes in different colors from my favourite 1920s brush & shaving supply store in Vienna, Walter Weiss. The colors on these make me happiest and I feel like both the size and the firmness of the bristles (I use a Soft for the morning, and the Hard variety as my evening toothbrush) are just what my teeth crave (a dentist told me electrical toothbrushes suck, and I’m happy to have made the switch back to analog — and even try brushing with my left hand every other day). When I was in New York I saw they’re being carried at the Eckhaus Latta store so it made my discovery of them feel just a teensy bit less special, but here you go. They make great presents, too. I couldn’t find them online!
Jun 17, 2021
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I recently (finally!) after months of searching and not wanting to spend too much money, found the Pierrot clown lamp of my dreams on Willhaben (Austrian equivalent of Craigslist). He’s the perfect shade of a robin’s egg turquoise-y blue, I cleaned him with a toothbrush and some soap after having picked him up collecting dust in Vienna’s 22nd district, took him back home on the U-Bahn with me and we’ve been having a whale of a time ever since. I feel happy every time I switch him on.
Jun 17, 2021