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[joeallonby]

Last time I checked, Murakami wasn't white either.

I think you're the first person on the list to mention Handbook for Visitors
from Outer Space. I had forgotten about that one. Delightfully twisted
without a single space alien in sight.


on 9/18/04 9:51 AM, Mike Beiderbecke at beider19 at comcast.net wrote:

> 
> My two cents worth for fiction. Took me long enough to do this, music, films
> and non-fiction will take even longer.
> 
> 1. Gravity's Rainbow, TRP
> 2. You Bright & Risen Angels, William T Vollmann
> 3. Recognitions, William Gaddis
> 4. Hall of Mirrors, Robert Stone
> 5. Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami
> 6. Dreams of Leaving, Rupert Thompson
> 7. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers
> 8. Frank's World, George Mangles
> 9. Dhalgren, Samuel R Delany
> 10. Waiting for the End of The World, Madison Smartt Bell
> 
> All by living white guys. Except Gaddis, who isn't living. And Delany, who
> is black. And maybe Mangles, 'cause nobody knows anything about him.
> 
> And a few that were on the bubble;
> Our Beautiful Heroine, Jacques Roubaud
> Disappearances, William Wiser
> Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner
> Shrine at Altimira, John L'herueux
> Arabian Nightmare, Robert Irwin
> Assignment, Frederick Durrenmatt
> Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space, Kathryn Kramer
> Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
> And it could go on and on.
> 
> Regards
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