amycapella
02-21-2010, 04:52 PM
I just got through reading some novels by Gerald Schoenewolf, and I felt a wonderful sense of discovery, as when you find an unexpected treasure. There are 5 of his novels on Amazon, and all of them are great in different ways. Schoenewolf spend his career as a psychoanalyst and wrote a lot of psychology books, then more recently started publishing novels. What makes his novels great are that they tell meaningful stories that resonate with genuine characters (not super heros). Some of the books may be dark and politically incorrect and hard to take for some. A WAY YOU'LL NEVER BE, for example, is a road trip in which a black serial murderer (who had a white mother) picks up a 17-year-old runaway and takes her to the Florida Keys. This is a heart-wrenching tale that has things to say about race and gender in our society, but it ends very tragically. Another book, FLUGELHORN'S FLIGHT: Kidnapped by Babes from Outer Space, is an erotic science fiction satire, sort of like Barbarella. This one has a Woody Allen kind of humor, about a nerd who is kidnapped by women and brought to their planet, where his job is to repopulate the place (all the men have died out). As I said, there are other books by him. He's very different than the usual fare. Try him, you might like him.