“Everyone’s sex life is funny except your own.” -John Waters
Nov 20, 2024
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I took myself by surprise when a memoir-esque book joined the ranking of my favorites of all time. The storytelling is revolutionary and like nothing I have ever consumed before, in the true style of John Waters. I can feel the respect and admiration he has for the people in his life that have touched him and I love how powerfully that comes through in the book.
Apr 13, 2023
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John Swartzwelder is the funniest writer in the world. I don’t know that I could write about him and do him justice, but he was a longtime Simpsons writer and then started self-publishing books that are so incredibly joke dense it will blow your mind. Here’s a quote from The Time Machine Did It, one of his many books following a strange detective named Frank Burly: “When I first became a detective I had tried solving crimes the way mystery writers do: coming up with the solution to the crime first, then working back to the point where you don't know what the hell is going on. But for some reason every time I tried that I ended up locked in a closet.”
Feb 24, 2022
These short stories made me feel naked and uncomfortable and also made me laugh, like guffaw level laugh a couple times. If you ever feel absurd and lost especially in a city social scene or in your family or in your dating life here is a book for all of the above. Also has the original short story that Secretary is very loosely based on (definitely a different story and much darker tone).
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