Long summary of book recommendations 7/00

[Vivek Ahlawat]

Also add his Master of St Petersburg in our list of:
Right you are obsessed with a  writer's life. MStP is
the story of Dostoevski about to write The Demons. For
those who like this novel of D also recommended
Camus's stage version.
--- Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu> wrote:
> jill provides:
> > [a long and wonderful list of "If you like
> Pynchon..."
> > recommendations]
> 
> To this I'd add my current obsession: J. M. Coetzee.
> He doesn't satisfy
> the Big Book criterion of the original request,
> except in the sense of
> the wallop he packs into each page of fairly slim
> volumes. I've recently
> read "The Lives of Animals" and "Dusklands" and am
> in the middle of
> "Waiting for the Barbarians". If I could I'd mail
> you all a copy each of
> "Dusklands" - it's that good and to think it was
> only his first book!
> 
> I'll try and post some choice excerpts one of these
> days.
> 
> Murthy
> 
> -- 
> Murthy Yenamandra                 
> mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
> Dept of Computer Science           University of
> Minnesota
> "I strive to be brief, but I become obscure." -
Horace


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