another damn list

[David Gentle]

> Au contraire.  I think esp. that there are more
> Tolkien fans than will raise their hands here.  But I
> tend to think of myself often as the odd one out, as I
> don't even read all that much fiction in the first
> place, and very little of it contemporary, or even,
> for that matter, American.  Vollmann?  Gass?  For
> example.  An acquaintance axed me the other night (a)
> know anything about this Thomas Pynchon guy, and (b)
> recommend anything else along those lines?  I listed
> more than a few works I know only from their having
> been enthusaistically mentioned here ...
[Raises hands as a Tolkien fan] I wish I had movey and a credit card. Then I'd read so much my eyes
would melt. But it seems to me that we're all obviously pretty odd here, nothing to worry about at
all.

David Gentle