I actually just finished a non-SF book
"The Seven Days of Peter Crumb", by Jonny Glynn. Really good look inside the head of a proper mental.

I'm now reading "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi, which is post-oil, post-climate-change SF where GM food companies are the big players with monopolies on foods resistant to pests and diseases they cooked up to kill off their competitors foods. Very interesting.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:34, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I have just read that.
I enjoyed it a surprising amount, given that there is not a single character in it who is even remotely likeable.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:47, Reply)

which one?
Preumably the former, since so far at least the eponymous windup girl is fairly likeable.
The mumbling to himself, soiling himself and killing people did remind me of /OT a bit.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:56, Reply)

Nope, the windup.
I shall refrain from spoilering things though.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:59, Reply)