Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I just read "Dave Barry Slept Here" last month, Goofyernmost! It was a riot! Everything in American history occurred on one date Oct. 8th, his son's b-day! He is too funny. I miss his columns, too. We don't get them in our paper, but I get them emailed from Miami Herald. Does anyone remember that one he did about theme parks? It was classic. (I was trying to find it on the web to post, but I wasn't able to. Maybe it will come in my email soon, b/c they are delivering the classics while he's off.) John, it sounds like you are in good hands with John Grogan's literary agent! Are you working on a book now?
Originally Posted By JohnS1 I absolutely love Dave Barry's books! His two novels weren't bad either. I met him once when he came to speak at our university. And I won a contest he sponsored in his column one year. "John, it sounds like you are in good hands with John Grogan's literary agent! Are you working on a book now?" It goes to my publisher in two weeks. My agent (Laurie) is looking at it now. Wish me luck.
Originally Posted By DAR I'm about to start two of the best comic book series ever. Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen.
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 Good luck, John! That is so exciting! I hope your book takes off like "Marley and Me" has~ and we will all be reading an article (like the one I posted) about you next year! With an agent named "Laurie" you just can't go wrong! (that's my name...lol)
Originally Posted By JohnS1 I really don't want to belabor this - self-promotion isn't really my ultimate goal - but it's funny you should say what you did, Tink. One of my most wonderful girl freinds in college was named Laurie. Then I married a great lady with a different name, but when I was accepted by my agent and that was her name - I told her that her name had brought me good luck in the past. Luckily, she had a good sense of humor and we have hit it off wonderfully over the past four years. My first book, though not a break-away success, did fairly well, and she had the faith in it to promote it and find me a publisher. Laurie's really a great lady in my opinion.
Originally Posted By Chedstro "The Big Over Easy" was a huge winner from Fforde! Now I started "Peter and the Shadow Thieves" the sequal from Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Reading is great right now, lol! Cindy
Originally Posted By MissCandice No, but after I read "Of Mice and Men" (LP bookclub in da house) I was interested in reading more from him but hadn't gotten around to it before, so it's a new one for me.
Originally Posted By alexbook "Left Behind" - I tried reading this series a few years ago and got distracted. I've decided to give it another shot.
Originally Posted By alexbook P.S. "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" gets a big thumb's up from me. It's an odd collection of autobiographical, mostly humorous, essays. Some are short, and some are very, very short.
Originally Posted By DlandJB Scott Berg's "Kate Remembered" about Katharine Hepburn is endlessly fascinating to me.
