NPPF - All Done? What contenders for next reading?

[Prsamsa at aol.com]

following a NP in which Jasper F. mentions, ready for?

Moby Dick, me, me.
I have read that one, but could take another reading.
Also have just read of Melville's "Pierre", in which apparently the author 
takes
out his frustration at the culture which rejected Moby Dick;  he spent the 
rest
of his life in government service, was it in the customs service?  Melville's
books weren't taken seriously until scholars resurrected them some decades
later.  From what I've experienced and heard of government servitude, it must
have been a kind of purgatory for Melville to live through.  

But seriously, has there been an attempt to read Pynchon's contemporaries
like William Gaddis, or a later one, William Vollmann, or Denis Johnson, 
whose
"Already Dead" seems an answer to the drug-dazed half-cartoony characters in
"Vineland", or Kafka or Borges?  

Up for that, too.
But with holidays and lots of work on horizon, I'll check back occasionally.  


Perry Sams.  
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