My 2007 reading list.

I'm currently reading Hairstyles of the Damned because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. And admittedly I'm not very far into it, but I'm feeling rather underwhelmed. Does it get better?
It seems like he is trying to channel Nick Hornby at times. And, I know it came out after Hairstyles, but Dr. Frank Portman's King Dork was strikingly better. But again, I'm only 75-100 pages in so these are tentative impressions.

King Dork was strikingly better.
I liked it quite a bit.

I plan on finishing the works of Chaz Darwin.

I had a hard time getting into Hairstyles of the Damned, but I pushed through it since I loved The Boy Detective Fails so much. There were some parts toward the end that I appreciated, but I don't think I will be reading it again any time soon.

I'm going to read every writer who ever won the nobel prize.

Best book I came across this year was Never Again by Doug Nuffer. Usually I'm pretty anti self indulgent postmoderny gibberish, but this is damn good gibberish in my estimation. The worst book I had the misfortune to read was Ten Thousand Penises In Your Ear by some guy I can't be bothered to Google. New lows for humanity and a complete waste of a perfectly good title. My brother, whose going through some born again capitalist gold standard endorsing, Ron Paul supporting phase, got me a copy of Atlas Shrugged for X-Mas. Now I kinda have to read it. Thanks a lot, dick.

I liked King Dork, too, but it after having a number of people I know hype it to the extreme, I was slightly disappointed.

I was really unimpressed with Hairstyles of the Damned. I'm a pretty big fan of the young adult journal style of novel, but this was a very generic one with an added element of pandering towards aging punks. Admittedly, it's been years since I've read it, but I remember liking Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland much more.