fat men from space

[forthegothicheroine]

Favorite books: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater

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[under-the-moonlight-tower]

Who’s up for root beer and blueberry muffins? 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[queerbetweenthelines-blog]

I think this photo explains itself. I bought this in a library second-hand bookshop. #booksthataren'tgaybutshouldbe

[doeeyedgaze]

[itsagraphicnovelnotacomic]

Even though, this is a book that is meant for 8 year olds, the book is fucking hiarilous. A classic book without a doubt.

[seltzerlizard]

Reading Daniel Pinkwater’s Fat Camp Commandos while at my local library with my son.

[bookrecommendations]

Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater

Book recommendation by moderator

Parallel universes! Alternate dimensions!

[aaroncael]

Take a minute to read Chapter 60 of Daniel Pinkwater’s Bushman Lives. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=La9VHFG7gvsC&lpg=PT201&vq=baked%20potato&pg=PT201#v=onepage&q&f=false

While the whole book is worth it, I found this particular chapter about eating a baked potato to be especially resonant with how I feel about making art and life in general. 

[seltzerlizard]

(via Daniel Pinkwater’s brilliant, hilarious, life-changing books as $3 ebooks - Boing Boing) Of all of these, I highly recommend both Fat Men From Space (which will comfortably be read by most adults in an hour or less and describes the ravaging of Earth’s fast food, sugary snacks, and fat-laden delights by bespectacled, plaid suit wearing fat men from space) and The Last Guru, which offers an alternative interpretation of enlightenment and spirituality which profoundly affected my young mind by suggesting ever so artfully and gently that there was nothing wrong with me after all. I am excited for these. He’s still my favorite author of all time.

[rowecommaadam]

Daniel Pinkwater’s father was a Jewish gangster:

One Saturday, while playing around his father’s desk, young Pinkwater found two blackjacks, those small elastic clubs used to knock out detectives in 1940s radio dramas. Pinkwater asked his father why he needed two blackjacks. “The black one with the grey suit, the brown one with the blue suit,” Pinkwater’s father said.

[geekgirlnavigatingtheworld]

Halloween doesn’t have to just be about scary, it can also be a great time to celebrate the odd and unusual. Daniel Pinkwater writes fantastically odd stories that don’t get too frightening.  I loved them when I was a kid, and I still love them now. 

Neil Gaiman started the idea of All Hallow’s Read, to encourage people to give each other books instead of candy. I can’t give everyone a book, much as I would like to, but I can point out that Daniel Pinkwater has several of his books available for free on his website:

http://www.bsckids.com/2014/10/geek-girl-navigating-the-world-the-pinkwater-all-hallows-read/

[contemporaryadultplumbing]

Daniel Pinkwater reads some classic poetry by renowned beat poet Jonathan Quicksilver.

[wtfbadfantasycovers]

Not so much Inappropriate as odd. I’m sure it’s a great read.

[margaretyang]

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“Have you ever been to Los Angeles?”

I said that I hadn’t.

“Well, how do you know that it’s there?” Sir Charles asked.

“It’s on all the maps,” I said. “People talk about it.  I just assume …”

“Aha! You assume!” Sir Charles said.  “My point exactly!  Let me tell you something surprising.  There is no such place as Los Angeles - never has been.  It is a fiction, a deception, a practical joke - and everybody believes it exists.  Now, I ask you, if a geographical error of that magnitude can exist right here in this great country, is it so hard to believe that there may still be vast unexplored regions in Africa?”

I liked Sir Charles Pelicanstein.  He was evidently crazy - but he had some interesting ideas.  Besides, he took the trouble to argue with me.  A lot of adults won’t do that.  I admitted he had a point - that is, if it was true that Los Angeles didn’t exist.

(from The Worms of Kukumlima by Daniel Pinkwater, 1981)

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from The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater