comparable authors?

[Saud Al-Zaid]

         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?

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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 !

                        Saud.


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