Here Comes Your Man plus other great reads

[stevensavile]

I bought a kindle a few months ago, and have probably read 70 books since buying it. In that time, by far and away the best books I have read on it have been complete surprise packages -

Here Comes Your Man, by Derek Gentry - can't say enough good stuff about this one. It's Doug Coupland's Microserfs/JPod fused with the heart and humour of Nick Hornby.

http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-You...4362786&sr=8-2


And close second, I think, One Hit Wonder and Raising Jake by Charlie Carillo,

http://www.amazon.com/One-Hit-Wonder...4362846&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Jake-e...4362871&sr=8-4

(ripped shamelessly from the amazon page)

In Charlie Carillo's funny, insightful novel, a divorced man gets to know his seventeen-year-old son in a tale that rewrites the book on quality time together. . .

Sammy Sullivan is working his way down the ladder of success. Divorced and pushing fifty, his relationships have the longevity of a fruit fly. But how many men can get themselves fired and have their only son expelled from prep school all in one day? Now, after almost eighteen years, he and Jake may finally get to know each other. (That's if his ex-wife--the super-achiever Sammy can only dream of being--doesn't find out.) Jake knows virtually nothing about his roots. So, Sammy shows him the old neighborhood in the far reaches of Queens. But it's been thirty years. The older woman Sammy lost his virginity to now uses a walker to get around. Most of his hangouts are long gone. It's dreary, born-to-lose stuff. But Jake is on a mission. Wise beyond his (and his dad's) years, he doesn't want his father to miss out the second time around on the good things he blew the first time. And they've got a whole weekend together--a journey where Sammy will confront his, dysfunctional childhood and Jake will face a past he never knew he had.

This isn't your typical father-son story--one is still growing up. The other is his son.