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Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child’s sickbed.” - this is without question the funniest book I’ve ever read. I truly don’t understand how it hasn’t been made into a movie. Also I have a suspicion a documentary on the guy who wrote it and died and his mother getting it printed would be amazing.

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

If there armed rapes why should there not be armed hot dog thefts"

"Am I going to be attacked in my own home before a stranger with a false beard?". One of the funniest things I've ever read in a book. This character reminds me of so many people.

She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. "