A Sad Honor
Thanks to all who came out to Cody’s last night. They’re closing on April 20, so everyone go and buy something and say farewell and make peace with the store. Cody’s is a solid bookstore and when the one on Telegraph closed, I think a little piece of me died. And then it was replaced by RAGE AND FURY. Now the San Francisco store is going under. It hasn’t been there that long which makes it even more depressing. Like it never had a shot to begin with. There’s a Border’s around the corner. Anyway, it was a great reading and Cody’s has this cool tradition where the readers/authors write book recommendations in this notebook. I wanted to flip through it and see what people had suggested. I kind of think people might have really bad taste or something, but you know if they had bad taste they’d just recommend someone everyone would agree with, like Mark Twain. Who doesn’t like Mark Twain? I hate him, he was such a jackass. JK JK JK JK
Last night after the reading I hung out with a high school classmate I haven’t seen in a hundred years, plus or minus a few years. Anyway her nickname was the Deerslayer because she hit a deer with her car. There was blood and tufts of hair and everything. Kind of awesome, right? No? I’ve never actually hit a deer, but once I hit a rabbit and I knew it was probably suffering, so I turned the car around and psyched myself up so I could “finish the job” but I couldn’t find it. I also ran over a rattlesnake. California man, it’s a jungle.
Let me tell you, the whole deer thing was very scary!
Great job last night.
Scary for the deer you deerslayer!
QUESTION: When Aaron says, “I recently saw her read….” does he mean his girlfiend or ex-girlfriend?
-Barry Bunin
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great memior…very entertaining, April 17, 2007
Reviewer: Aaron Isaksen (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This is a great memoir and really hilarious! Its just as good writing as Augusten Burroughs or David Sedaris, and written in a similar witty and sarcastic tone. But Choi’s stories are much more accessible and way easier to relate to, yet the author and her family are still quite crazy in their own way. She has an incredible voice and the dialogue is very funny. My girlfriend read it and she really liked it too. I recently saw her read from the book at Barnes and Noble and it was one of the best readings I’ve ever been too…very entertaining and she had us all laughing.