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FROM: "Mandy McGee" <[removed]@oppl.org>
REC'D: 1/29/04, 3:22 PM

A co-worker of mine just finished Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time" and asked me to recommend some books with a
similar quirky narrative format. She enjoyed the illustrations and the
prime numbered chapters and such. The only author I could think of off
the top of my head was Vonnegut. Any other suggestions? If there are
enough titles, I can compose a list.

Thanks!

Mandy McGee
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL

FROM: Lynne Welch <[removed]@oplin.org>
REC'D: 1/29/04, 3:33 PM

Check the archives - this thread was exhaustively covered just
a couple of months ago.
http://www.webrary.org/MaillistF/msgcur/2003/11/Re.CuriousIncidentoftheDo.html

>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:12:30 -0600
>From: "Mandy McGee" <[removed]@oppl.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Looking for quirky narrative fiction
>
>A co-worker of mine just finished Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of
>the Dog in the Night-time" and asked me to recommend some books with a
>similar quirky narrative format. She enjoyed the illustrations and the
>prime numbered chapters and such. The only author I could think of off
>the top of my head was Vonnegut. Any other suggestions? If there are
>enough titles, I can compose a list.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mandy McGee
>Oak Park Public Library
>Oak Park, IL
>
>
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FROM: Ellen Olson <[removed]@rockford.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/29/04, 4:00 PM

Here is another chance for me to mention Jonathan Lethem's book, Motherless
Brooklyn. I read it, MADE a coworker read it, we used it for a book
discussion, then recommended it to another discussion group. The main
character's Tourette's Syndrome is handled with grace and humor. Lethem is a
terrific author and Lionel is a character that will stay with you for a long
time. (There is a compelling mystery in this book as well.)
Ellen Olson
Rockford Public Library
Rockford IL

-----Original Message-----
From: Mandy McGee [[removed]@oppl.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:13 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Looking for quirky narrative fiction

A co-worker of mine just finished Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time" and asked me to recommend some books with a
similar quirky narrative format. She enjoyed the illustrations and the
prime numbered chapters and such. The only author I could think of off
the top of my head was Vonnegut. Any other suggestions? If there are
enough titles, I can compose a list.

Thanks!

Mandy McGee
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL

FROM: [removed]@unforgettablebooks.com
REC'D: 1/29/04, 4:57 PM

Hello,

This request somehow dredged up "Peter Leroy" in my
mind. A marvelous series of novels by Eric Kraft,
first published in installments...you must read in
order, in my opinion, and the place to start would be
LITTLE FOLLIES: THE PERSONAL HISTORY, ADVENTURES,
EXPERIENCES & OBSERVATIONS OF PETER LEROY (SO FAR),
which is the compilation of those earliest
installments. Later titles came out in book form
proper. Can't recommend highly enough.
Gayle Richardson
[removed]@unforgettablebooks.com

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:53:57 -0600, Ellen Olson wrote:

>
> Here is another chance for me to mention Jonathan
> Lethem's book, Motherless
> Brooklyn. I read it, MADE a coworker read it, we used
> it for a book
> discussion, then recommended it to another discussion
> group. The main
> character's Tourette's Syndrome is handled with grace
> and humor. Lethem is a
> terrific author and Lionel is a character that will
> stay with you for a long
> time. (There is a compelling mystery in this book as
> well.)
> Ellen Olson
> Rockford Public Library
> Rockford IL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mandy McGee [[removed]@oppl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:13 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Looking for quirky narrative fiction
>
>
> A co-worker of mine just finished Mark Haddon's "The
> Curious Incident of
> the Dog in the Night-time" and asked me to recommend
> some books with a
> similar quirky narrative format. She enjoyed the
> illustrations and the
> prime numbered chapters and such. The only author I
> could think of off
> the top of my head was Vonnegut. Any other
suggestions?
> If there are
> enough titles, I can compose a list.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mandy McGee
> Oak Park Public Library
> Oak Park, IL
>
>
>
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FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/30/04, 8:26 AM

"The crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon?

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/30/04, 11:06 AM

I'll mention one that I hadn't earlier - a
delightfully strange little literary thing, Jo
Soares's 'Twelve Fingers: Biography of an
Anarchist,' the zany story about Dimitri Korozec,
a bumbling, twelve-fingered international
criminal who is sort of a cross between Eric
Ambler's Dimitrious Makropolis and Peter
Sellers's Inspector Clouseau. Likewise Andrey
Kurkov's 'Death and the Penguin,' a wonderfully
offbeat, low-key story about an obituary writer,
his pet Penguin, and the Russian Mafiya.

These are not so much stories told from a
radically different mental place, as in Incident
or Motherless, but are pleasurably odd to the
core. Daniel Pennac's mysteries are another
example - something very offbeat and charming
about them, but it is hard to pin it down.

David Wright
Seattle Public Library

"Literature is a luxury; fiction a neccessity."
-G.K. Chesterton

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/31/04, 8:34 AM

How about Bright Lights, Big Ciy?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Lindy Pratch <[removed]@EPL.CA>
REC'D: 1/31/04, 12:39 PM

Mandy,
I thought of a title that wasn't mentioned in the earlier discussion of
Curious Incident read-alikes. The unusual narrative voice and the suspense
of the plot may please your co-worker, although there are no illustrations:
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (2003)

Publishers Weekly says: "This gripping American debut by Italian novelist
Ammaniti captures well the vagaries of childhood: the shifting alliances,
the casual betrayals and the mix of helplessness and earnest audacity with
which children confront adult situations. Nine-year-old Michele Amitrano
lives with his little sister, devoted mother and distant father in a rural
Italian hamlet consisting of five dilapidated houses. In the sweltering
summer of 1978, he and a group of his friends strike out on their bikes
across the barren, scorched hills. While exploring an abandoned house,
Michele discovers what he believes to be the dead body of a boy his own
age."

Lindy Pratch
Edmonton Public Library

Mandy McGee wrote:
>A co-worker of mine just finished Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of
>the Dog in the Night-time" and asked me to recommend some books with a
>similar quirky narrative format. She enjoyed the illustrations and the
>prime numbered chapters and such. The only author I could think of off
>the top of my head was Vonnegut. Any other suggestions? If there are
>enough titles, I can compose a list.

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