Eric
Ignore prudish opinions about this book. It's short and about sex. I think it's worth a few hours. Do not expect anything sweet or redeeming to happen. Handler keeps writing books about teenage love/angst, and it's always exaggerated but more honest than people want to admit. I like that.
Coupland has spent a career infusing the most fun and absurd realities of modern life into his stories of “average Joes” trying to adapt to culture's depleted standards of normalcy and stability. Never defeated, it's fantastic to follow along as his characters—this time, a disparate family oddly reuniting to celebrate their kin's first space-launch—finally give up the ghost and accept their lot as bumbling, mediocre happen-tos, finally daring the world to bring it on. Excellent reading for coming of agers and world-weary loners looking for a blanched ray of hope.
Truly stunning novel recounting the last days and tracing back to the beginnings of love for two middle-aged biologists who get murdered on a deserted beach and are left to decompose. It's the most poetic, delicate, lovely story about death I've ever read, and gives such life to death that you leave the story in love with the cycle. For sober readers, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Reviewing the series as a whole, Saga is an excellent story with an unexpected ton of heart, lots of twists and turns, plenty of imagination and so many I-have-to-keep-reading-to-see-what-happens-next moments. Highly recommended even if you don't think you like comics.
Lit-zine turned Crimethinc. novella, it's a nice warm diary of 2 girls' trip across Europe in search of – what else? – transitory freedom and honest joy. Nothing earth-shattering, but a comfort-read for like-minded souls.