Geek Love is everything. I keep wondering why nobody has optioned it (or if they have, why they're sitting on the rights).

I regularly assign _Geek Love_ in my classes and feel like I am inducting my students into a community of readers of the book. They all say that reading the book in public never fails to be a conversation-starter with other readers of the book, more so than anything else they've read.

I just started this season because of my fascination with old timey freak shows. I read Geek Love in my impressionable high school years.

I saw Chip Kidd speak once and he is just SO delightful, and hilarious as fuck. His designs are amazing and I love the 5-legged dog thing!

TAKE MY MONEY NOW.

I loved both books, myself. I think the similarity to both was this feeling of being into a world that I had nothing in common with, but the characters were so well drawn that I felt like I knew them.

That is the most perfect match I have ever wished I thought of. That honestly would be perfect.

When I think "Gen X Hipster book", Carolyn Chute's excellent The Beans of Egypt, Maine comes to mind. Maybe just because that's where Kurt and Courtney got the idea for Frances' middle name. Great book, nonetheless! Equally freaky, but more of an Acadian poverty freakshow.

Great, insightful piece. Brava. Excitement in the air tonight as we delve into Twisty's back story!!

I love Geek Love! Arty is one of literature's most creepy antagonists, in my view. And Oly is wonderfully sympathetic and baffling at once. If I hadn't just reread it I'd be opening it up again now!

I love love love this book!! Read it four times and it is frayed with adoration. It is nestled in quite nicely between Skinny Legs and All and Venus Envy.

In the 90's, I was cornered at a party by a friend of a friend who fervently urged me to read Geek Love. "I can never be friends with anyone who doesn't love this book," she said.

I'm so glad you brought this book back into the light. It was thrilling and chilling the entire time, and I absolutely loved every letter of it. I don't consider myself an outcast by any means, but to experience that story blew my ever-loving mind. And that's what makes a good story...GOOD. Damned good.

I found Geek Love incredibly disturbing, but that's probably because I read it when I was spending three days in the woods by myself...

I loved Geek Love so much, I haven't been able to make myself watch American Horror Story this season. I'm afraid that Ryan Murphy can't possibly do justice to what Katherine Dunn mastered.

Fuckinayyyyy Geek Love! SUCH a great book. You're thoroughly embroiled in the freakshow life from head to toe, with all the heartaches and family dramas... but it never felt strained or schlocky to me (and I am a connoisseur of schlock). It feels honest.

Funny you should mention Geek Love and AHS in the same breath. I've been getting that Geek Love vibe all season and I've been loving it. The perfect cocktail of bizarre/disturbing/heartbreaking/sexy/sad/funny/fascinating. The moral of both stories seemingly being that evil comes in all shapes and sizes, not just in…

Yeah, I was also young when I first picked it up. I remember wanting a prehensile tail so badly.

Geek Love is one of my all time favorites. I'm a huge fan of the circus/freak show genre in fiction(and non-fiction).

I can only point to 2, maybe 3, books that got me so - riled up- so - just ANXIOUS and freaked out- that when I read a certain passage I had to get up and pace the room. I had to put the book down- it was almost too intense. Geek Love was one of these. Oh god, the scene- it involved the twins... I can still see it in…