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10 best books like Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (Kurt Vonnegut): Lord of the Flies, Oryx and Crake, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Still Life with Woodpecker, A Confederate General from Big Sur, The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, Giraffes? Giraffes!, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s

Lord of the Flies
AuthorWilliam Golding
ISBN0140283331
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing,...
Oryx and Crake
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0385721676
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
AuthorJ.K. Rowling
ISBN0545010225
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.

The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...
Still Life with Woodpecker
AuthorTom Robbins
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary...
A Confederate General from Big Sur
AuthorRichard Brautigan
This is the story of Lee Mellon, whose great-grandfather was (or perhaps was not) a Confederate General in the Civil War. The story of a few weeks in San Francisco and Big Sur, it describes the relationship between Mellon and the narrator.
When Lee holes up at Big Sur, he writes his friend an urgent...
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
AuthorMark Vonnegut
ISBN1583225439
The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy--and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy,...
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
AuthorWilliam Rodney Allen
ISBN0878053581
Kurt Vonnegut says: "I've worked with enough students to know what beginning writers are like, and if they will just talk to me for twenty minutes I can help them so much, because there are such simple things to know. Make a character want something-that's how you begin." William Rodney Allen teaches...
Giraffes? Giraffes!
AuthorDoris Haggis-on-Whey
GIRAFFES?GIRAFFES

For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar-pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books, filled with ludicrous misinformation and aimed at children.

So...
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
AuthorMark Twain
ISBN0060518650
Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Twain...
The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s
AuthorPaul Slansky
ISBN0671673394
This book thoroughly answers the question: Were the Reagan years really as awful as many people believe? The answer, it turns out, is no. They were far, far worse.

Published in 1989 (and therefore without intervening years to romanticize and deify our most inept president) this book is a scathing...
Venus on the Half-Shell
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0352398469
Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with a cat-like...
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0395924820
Harlan Ellison is undoubtedly one of the most audacious, infuriating, brazen characters on the planet. Which may help explain why he is also one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth. Slippage simply presents recent, typical Ellison. In a word, masterful. The 21 stories...
We Can Build You
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's...
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0791071685
A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars.

- After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern
- Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S. Doxey
-...
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
AuthorHunter S. Thompson
ISBN0743240995
First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably astute...
[citation Needed]: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing
AuthorConor Lastowka
ISBN1466346981
Do you need help telling the difference between a Renaissance Pope and an oracular octopus? Do you need details on what inappropriate body parts the attendees at Wing Bowl expose to one another? Do you need an accounting of which movies in the Air Bud series contain the fewest fart jokes? Fortunately,...
Quicker Than the Eye
AuthorRay Bradbury
ISBN0380973804
The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high...
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
AuthorCharles Bukowski
ISBN0876854374
Bukowski the fiction writer and Bukowski the poet always seemed to be two different people. I've read a handful of his poems over the years and recognized a fire in him that is totally lacking from his novel work. In his poems, there lies a confident drunk, asleep at the wheel of life, seamlessly floating...
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