Recommended Reading

[Steelhead]

Agreed Eco _is_ dull, and in translation, too.

Here's Steelhead's brief list of summer reading for Pynchonophiles:

Fiction
John Shirley, anything, especially his RocknRoll/sf trilogy
Rudy Rucker, Wetware (and any of the other novels, the math texts do drag a
little)
Lewis Shiner, anything
Steve Erickson, Days Between Stations or Tours of the Black Clock
James Crumley, Dancing Bear or Mexican Tree Duck
Robert Cormier, Fade
Dan Simmons, Hyperion Trilogy
Neal Stephanson, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac
James Lee Burke, The Lost Get Back Boogie
James Ellroy, LA Confidential, Black Dahlia
Walter Moseley, Devil in a Blue Dress
Rosamond Smith (J, C. Oates pseudonym for her mysteries), Snakes Eyes
G. Garcia Marquez, Love and other Demons
Paco Taibo, Four Winds
Bruce Sterling, Islands in the Net
Tom Maddox, Halo
John Hawkes, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, and, of course, Travesty
and the Blood Oranges
Martin Amis, Time's Arrow, London Fields, Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
JG Ballard, Crash


Nonfiction
Baudrillard, America
Foucault, Discipline and Punish
James Hillman, Dreams and the Underworld
Neil Postman, Technopoly & Amused to Death
J. Kirkpatrick Sale, Against the Future, the Luddites and their War on the
Industrial Revolution
Claud Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropique
Katha Pollit, Reasonable Creatures
Alex Cockburn, The golden age is in us
Andy Kopkind, The 30 years war
Miles Davis, Autobiography
Frederick Pohl, Autobiography
Frederic Jameson, Postmoderism & Late Capitalism
Pauline Kael, Films in My Life