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Use to read that guys article in the paper as a preteen and I remember nothing about why I enjoyed it but he also somehow reminds me of Stephen King.
Steve: Well it's not like we have *nothing* in common. Perhaps you've heard of a little band . . .
Edgar: Not again . . .
Steve: Called the Rock Bottom Remainders?
*stares into the middle distance* I am pretty sure this is the book I read as, like, a naive ten year old, and still managed to understand that his "attempt at fiction" toward the end was some kind of weird confession of infidelity. Why do I remember this? WHY?!
i do remember thinking that the "you are an unfulfilled housewife who can have an affair through the internet" story was a very odd way to end the book
Well already this cover image alone predicted the future of White People coming out of no where to bother me through the Net. So good job Nostradomising that up, Barry.
I've never heard of this book but I HAVE to read it now because early books about the Internet are like the ultimate instantly dated time capsule and I think that's neat. It's like a really really old new car smell.
I bought that book for my stepdad! I think he ultimately cheated on my mom with someone he met through the Internet, so I guess he took something away from it.
I may actually have read this at Barnes & Noble as a child. My mom used to take me after occupational therapy and I had the same taste in comedy as every mildly precocious nerdy American elementary schooler in the 1990s
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Use to read that guys article in the paper as a preteen and I remember nothing about why I enjoyed it but he also somehow reminds me of Stephen King.
Edgar: Not again . . .
Steve: Called the Rock Bottom Remainders?
As long as you're *not* making it up.
This one is less so