Comments on: Books 2006: Foer, Shteyngart and Kunkel http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/12/31/books-2006-foer-shteyngart-and-kunkel/ Writings and whereabouts Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:27:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ionuka http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/12/31/books-2006-foer-shteyngart-and-kunkel/#comment-11905 Ionuka Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:35:33 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/12/31/books-2006-foer-shteyngart-and-kunkel/#comment-11905 Following your recommendation, I picked up a copy of Shteyngart's Handbook and I am loving it. I am only halfway through it, but I already know it's going to be the book I lend to all my friends. So sensitive, honest, and funny. My favorite quote so far, about a bar in NY's meat-packing district: "Below [the ceiling of the bar] one could also be as anachronistic as needed: put some Lynyrd Skynyrd on the jukebox, whip out a stick of beef jerkey, ruminate out loud on the contours of the waitress, or watch a trio of emaciated graduate students standing around the pool table with their cue sticks at attention, as if waiting for funding to appear. The usual crowd." Thank you! Following your recommendation, I picked up a copy of Shteyngart’s Handbook and I am loving it. I am only halfway through it, but I already know it’s going to be the book I lend to all my friends. So sensitive, honest, and funny. My favorite quote so far, about a bar in NY’s meat-packing district:
“Below [the ceiling of the bar] one could also be as anachronistic as needed: put some Lynyrd Skynyrd on the jukebox, whip out a stick of beef jerkey, ruminate out loud on the contours of the waitress, or watch a trio of emaciated graduate students standing around the pool table with their cue sticks at attention, as if waiting for funding to appear. The usual crowd.”

Thank you!

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