Jack Pendarvis is Awesome, Reads Awesome

Jack Pendarvis, author of the hilarious Your Body is Changing, which we reviewed last year, will be reading from his equally funny, Pendarvisly quirky new book Awesome tonight at 5pm @ Book Soup.

Ever wonder what it would be like to be 50-feet-tall and be totally into robots and nearly lose the maybe-love of your life who is not a giant such as yourself? Pendarvis clearly has, and the result of such dreaming is Awesome: the book and the character, for the giant who fancies himself quite dashing in a derby and who spends the novel chasing down his normal-sized love, Glorious Jones, is named Awesome. Get it?

If you are into humor, or at least giant weiner humor, this is a book for you. Think Chuck Palahniuk at his raunchiest, but softened by a gaussian blur, with a love story tossed in. Here's a taste:

"How would cutting off my own weiner affect my love life?
Not very much, I assumed.
Love isn't just about hanky panky.
Plus, what good had my giant weiner ever done me? I wasn't in love with a giant woman. I was in love with Glorious Jones."

The kind of guy who ponders the sexual concerns of giants is a guy you should definitely meet. Shame on you if you don't, tonight at 5pm @ Book Soup.