Fw: Recommendations

[Betsy Platt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Betsy Platt" <glen.echo at erols.com>
To: "charles f albert" <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: Recommendations


> OK, I read Messiah of Stockholm,  and it was good, but would you really
put
> it in the same category (I thought Social Studies was funnier)? If it is,
> then how about Robertson Davies's Rebel Angels, Fielding's Tom Jones,
Yoram
> Matmor's Who, ME? , anything by Anthony Trollope or Wallace Stegner,
Robert
> Pirzig's Lila,  Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume (Skinny Legs & All is a
> distant second), most of Edith Wharton and  maybe even Gurdjieff's
> Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson. Oh, and Howard the Duck, Zippy the
> Pinhead and Spiegelman's Maus.
> B
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charles f albert" <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Recommendations
>
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
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