Fool on the Hill
10 best books like Fool on the Hill (Matt Ruff): Death: A Life, HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!, Das geheime Leben der Bücher, Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed, Zod Wallop, Das Känguru-Manifest, Through a Brazen Mirror, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat, Nine Kinds of Naked
The shocking new memoir from Death
At last, the mysterious, feared, and misunderstood being known only as “Death” talks frankly and unforgettably about his infinitely awful existence. Chronicling his abusive childhood, his near-fatal addiction to Life, his excruciating time in...
| Author | Mykle Hansen |
| ISBN | 1933929693 |
absolutely. lets be honest, this is a book you buy for the cover, initially. but behold: its actually well-written!! this is the most unsympathetic character ive read since dostoevskys the adolescent, but its a hoot, and i didnt want to throw the book even once, which i did with the adolescent. thats...
| Author | Régis de Sá Moreira |
| ISBN | 3426197111 |
Auch Bücher brauchen Liebe!
Viele wünschen sich, sie könnten von Luft und Liebe leben. Er, der Buchhändler, lebt vom Lesen, denn nur dann hat er das Gefühl, geliebt zu werden. Seine Buchhandlung ist sein Universum, die Bücher sind seine Schützlinge. Und bei jedem Klingeln seiner...
| Author | Lance Carbuncle |
| ISBN | 1602640432 |
Idjit Galoot has a problem. He escaped from his master's house for a brief romp around town, seeking out easy targets such as bitches in heat, fresh roadkill and unguarded garbage cans. When he returns to his house, the aged basset hound discovers that his master has packed up their belongings and moved...
| Author | William Browning Spencer |
| ISBN | 1565048709 |
Rock yawned. "Gotta get moving," Rock said. A couple of hundred million years went by. A rock is always slow to take action. A rock watches an oak grow from a sapling to a towering tree, and it's a flash and a dazzle in the mind of a rock. What was that? Rock thinks. Or maybe, Huh?
That's how Zod Wallop...
| Author | Marc-Uwe Kling |
| ISBN | 3548373836 |
Sie sind wieder da – das kommunistische Känguru und der stoische Kleinkünstler! Auf der Jagd nach dem höchstverdächtigen Pinguin rasen sie durch die ganze Welt. Spektakuläre Enthüllungen! Skandale! Intrigen! Ein Mord, für den sich niemand interessiert! Eine Verschwörung auf niedrigster...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 1885865244 |
In a medieval kingdom both like and unlike 13th C. England, a mysterious young man appears at the door of the palace kitchen, seeing to serve the king. In a lonely stone tower, a woman watches the world through her mirror of bronze. The young king mourns the death of his friend in battle and and puts off choosing...
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
| Author | Gideon Defoe |
| ISBN | 0375423214 |
Not since Moby-Dick... No, not since Treasure Island... Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time...
Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat
| Author | John Welter |
| ISBN | 1565120507 |
Secret Service agent Doyle Coldiron gets into hot water before you can say, "Just the facts, ma'am." Soon he's swept up in an outrageous flood of events in this cockeyed look at Washington life and at the confusing business of falling in love in the 1990s. "Among the wittiest American novelists writing...
"As fanciful and inventive in its form... as it is in its observations... It fed tasty crackers to all the hungry parrots in my mental aviary." —TOM ROBBINS
Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his acclaimed, surreal whirlwind of a novel exploring chaos theory. A prisoner spins a playing card...
Former bureaucrat Max Borodin is one of Moscow's most successful businessmen. He strolls through the wreckage of today's Russia with ease - convincing people to do his bidding, providing its citizens (both friends and clients) with the luxury goods they covet, and generally leading a prosperous...
| Author | Chris Genoa |
| ISBN | 0972959890 |
Meet Joe, the ill-fated tour guide at the center of a story that beings with the death of Abraham Lincoln, at Joe's hands. There are strange happenings going on at Dactyl, Inc., the world's first and only time travel tourism company. So strange that Joe, a tour guide, is promoted to the new position of Chief...
| Author | Danger Slater |
| ISBN | 0984612742 |
Do you like tales of Cold War espionage? Taut psychological thrillers? Science fiction as a metaphor for U.S. foreign policy? How about cute angst-filled teenage vampire toyboys? Well, too bad. None of those things are in this book. Instead you'll join a guy in a Viking suit on an absurdly epic quest...
| Author | Jenn Thorson |
| ISBN | 0983804532 |
Life in the Greater Communicating Universe isn't easy. But "death": now that has its perks.
For Rollie Tsmorlood, escaping a prison planet that no one ever survives... well, it's more than a smart lifestyle choice. It's the perfect chance to unleash some covert revenge.
But when someone steals...
| Author | Bill Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0060815302 |
Bob Dillon is a down-on-his-luck exterminator from Queens who just wants to make a killing with his radical new environmentally friendly pest elimination technique. But when he decides to advertise, his flyer falls into the hands of a shady European murder-for-hire broker who mistakes Bob for a professional...
| Author | Sven Regener |
| ISBN | 3821807431 |
Frank Lehmann ist zurück. Neue Vahr Süd erzählt, wie es dem liebenswerten Kauz neun Jahre vor den Erlebnissen in Sven Regeners grandiosem Erstlingswerk Herr Lehmann ergangen ist. Lehmanns Freunde nennen ihn noch bei seinem Vornamen Frank, er wohnt noch in Bremen bei seinen Eltern im Neubauviertel...
The Muse of Edouard Manet
Edouard Manet is an infamous painter in 19th century Paris. Emily Porterfield is a conservator of paintings in 21st century Chicago. He made her fall in love with art when she was nine years old and yet Emily was the muse of Edouard's greatest artwork 150 years before she was born. Their story begins with...
The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer
| Author | Carol de Chellis Hill |
| ISBN | 0393314073 |
A cult classic from its first appearance, this ambitious novel is a rich and comic blend of physics, feminism, and political farce. Brilliant physicist Amanda Jaworski is in training to be the first person to journey to Mars. With her magic cat, Schrodinger, Amanda soon finds herself doing battle with...
| Author | Wolf Haas |
| ISBN | 3455404189 |
"Als ich mich das erste Mal verliebte, war ich in England, und da ist die Rinderseuche ausgebrochen. Als ich mich das zweite Mal verliebte, war ich in China, und da ist die Vogelgrippe ausgebrochen. Und drei Jahre später war ich das erste registrierte Opfer der Schweinegrippe. Sollte ich je wieder...
| Author | Horst Evers |
| ISBN | 3499242516 |
Horst Evers' Erzähler ist der klassische Nichtsnutz, für den aller Ärger schon mit dem Aufstehen beginnt. Sein Universum ist ein Netz an Arbeitsvermeidungsstrategien, in das immer wieder unerwartet Meteoriten einbrechen. Das kann schon das Klingeln des Telefons sein, ein Baumarktangestellter,...
| Author | James P. Blaylock |
| ISBN | 0441004903 |
In the dead of night, a man climbs the tower of St. Anthony's Church, driven by a compulsive urge to silence the bells. In a deserted alley, a seemingly random victim is consumed by a torrent of flames. And in the deceptive light of day, a mail-order businessman named Walt Stebbins receives a bizarre artifact--a...
| Author | Judith Schalansky |
| ISBN | 3518421778 |
Anpassung ist alles, weiß Inge Lohmark. Schließlich unterrichtet sie seit mehr als dreißig Jahren Biologie. Daß ihre Schule in vier Jahren geschlossen werden soll, ist nicht zu ändern – in der schrumpfenden Kreisstadt im vorpommerschen Hinterland fehlt es an Kindern. Lohmarks Mann, der...
| Author | Lee A. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0226756998 |
Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery rolled into one. Enticing the reader to follow both victims and celebrants of romantic love on their hypertextual voyage of folly and lust-through movie posters, upside-down pages, the...
