Recommendations

[charles f albert]

Melinda,


Listen to Joe........to leverage the fun,read Eliot on Elizabethan revenge 
tragedies first....
won't take long - will change your life......


And I always offer the same recommendation when this comes up....in over 7 
years of participation,
I've never heard a "second"....triste...

Messiah of Stockholm - Cynthia Ozick

if your taste runs to tomes, Martin Amis "London Fields" - eschew all other 
works by him..


out there looms an oddity by a brit named Michael Arlen - The Green Hat ( 
it is my mother's current grail ) -
I know nothing more about it......anyone?


predictably,


WARLOCK, Oakley Hall...........


and a most enthusiastic second on PALE FIRE - but if you are in any way 
"obsessive" - I'd let it be for now........

there will be time.......


love,
cfa





At 09:35 PM 3/18/2004, you wrote:
>on 3/18/04 8:32 PM, Melinda at melinda17 at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > hi... I just finished reading my first Pynchon novel,
> > Gravity's Rainbow, and I was wondering if anyone had
> > any ideas about what I should try next? I'm a complete
> > novice (and will probably be re-reading Gravity's
> > Rainbow for a while), but I'd love to hear what your
> > favorites are or other authors you enjoy. Thanks! Melinda
>
>I'd go with The Crying of Lot 49.
>
>But then again, I always do.