Good reading/Coover

[Richard Romeo]

Well, Mr. Q I am taking another shot at Robert Coover's The Adventures of Lucky Pierre--half-way through this time.  Hopefully I'll make it to the finish line

Other Coover books I'd recommend:  Origin of the Brunists and John's Wife and innumerable short stories--the Grand Hotels of Joseph Cornell are wonderful


Richard 

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of The Great Quail
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:45 AM
To: The Whole Sick Crew
Subject: Good reading

> So have you read anything cool recently? Or even "hot"?

Yeah! Have any of you guys read Ronald Sukenick? I am halfway through
"98.6," a dystopian book told in a fractured narrative.  I think it's
freaking fantastic -- I haven't been this haunted by a book in a long time.
For the most part, it deals with a settlement of erotically adventurous
hippies in "Frankenstein," sort of an alternate California -- like a darker
Vineland. Although there's definitely a bit of Burroughs in there, Sukenick
seems pretty original, and there's a lot that I think would appeal to
Pynchon fans. 

http://fc2.org/sukenick/986/986.htm

http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/sukenick.html

Three other books I've recently read that impressed me are "Gilligan's
Wake," by Tom Carson, "City of Saints and Madmen," by Jeff VanderMeer, and
"Observatory Mansions," by Edward Carey. "Lucky Wander Boy," by D.B. Weiss,
was also a pretty good read, and makes several references to Pynchon.

I've also finally read Gaddis' "The Recognitions," which blew me away, and
"Don Quixote" which did not.

--Quail