comparable authors?

[Spencer Thiel]

At 06:25 PM 9/8/99 -0700, Saud Al-Zaid wrote:


>         Ok, Trying to figure out where to go next after TRP in the post 
> modern lit-world, I've carefully been studying reviews of several authors 
> that seem to turn up with TP's name. I have come to the following 
> conclusions about these authors (all of which I haven't read anything 
> substantial, except of course Pynchon), please tell me if I'm right or 
> wrong so I can have some kind of idea what I'm getting myself into :
>
>Don Delillo: More commercial than pynchon, and a bit more blatantly 
>political. More coherent even?

good

>David Foster Wallace: Kind of like a mixture between pynchon and Marcel 
>Proust, lengthy, complicated, lofty, etc

good

>Will Self: A bit more comical, less serious, less talented, more superficial.

good

>Salman Rushdie: more international? more into religion and mysticism, and 
>heavey on the anti-islamic position? ACtually, I dont think this guy fits 
>in the post-modern section, more international lit,

good--Midnight's Children rocks.

>J Louis Borges: the only dead guy on the list. More into dream-like 
>literature, also very international. Spiritual perhaps?

Gaddis is dead.

>Gaddis: Not too much found, nothing to give an opinion about. Any offers?

Have fun with JR

>Vidal Gore: Same as above, but seems mysterious. his name keeps popping up 
>in Simpson's episodes (in relation to Lisa)

hates pynchon.

>Farina: Underground author, kinda like Jack Kerouac for the more extreme 
>types in NY in the 60's and 70's.

pynchon's pal.  only one book.  good read.  try to find some of his tunes too.

>I know I shouldnt judge a book by its cover, and yadda yadda yadda, but 
>I'd appreciate any info and opinions about these guys, and I'm starting to 
>love milking you guys for information, a whole fleet on English 
>majors,executing all my eng-lit whims !

English majors?
-st.