I really enjoyed 'The African Safari Papers' by Robert Sedlack and pretty much anything from Stewart O'Nan. I say "pretty much" because I've only read 3 of his books so far...

i just finished "still life with woodpecker" by TR, and that was excellent. i'd also recommend some neruda poetry...always hits hard.

i think i'm the only person in the world who doesn't enjoy tom robbins.

i tried to read 'still life with woodpecker' a few years ago....and it was so boring.

i don't like Tom Robbins either. i will now recomment one of Douglas Coupland's earlier book for the 1,846th time on this board. Quick, thinky, fun reads with enough quirks to reread later.

i have all of coupland's early stuff.

everything including and before 'polaroids from the dead'.... love it!



is the later stuff worth my while?

up to and including All Families are Psychotic are all worth reading definitely. Hey Nostradamus! and Eleanor Rigby could use some work. Girlfriend in a Coma and Miss Wyoming are probably my favorites. I'm sure i'm forgetting others.