NP: what should I read?

[Sean Mannion]

May I highly recommend DeLillo's 'The Names' - maybe not as good an 
introduction as 'White Noise' to DeLillo nor as narrowly focused as 'Libra', 
but it's an amazing novel.

Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' and Katherine Dunn's 'Geek Love' are 
worth looking at to - but Murakami will (ala Pynchon) screw with your life 
if you 'depth' read it.

Cheers,
Sean


>From: kelber at mindspring.com
>Reply-To: kelber at mindspring.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: NP: what should I read?
>Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 18:09:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>
>Need something to read.  Preferably a novel.  Anyone have any suggestions? 
>Not into reading any Post-Modernist stuff that comes across as a pale 
>imitation of TRP.  Never read DeLillo.  Is he worth reading?  If so, what?  
>Is Ulysses really worth reading?  Don't really feel like plowing through 
>Neal Stephenson.  Also considering either Lolita or "Man in the High 
>Castle" by Philip Dick.  I'm floundering here.
>
>This year's reading list, so far:
>
>The Brothers Karamazov (re-read)
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch -- Philip Dick
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Small Back Room -- Nigel Balchin
>The Female Man -- Joanna Russ
>Vineland
>Mason & Dixon
>Crying of Lot 49 (re-read)
>V (re-read)
>Pale Fire
>Cloud Atlas
>The Golden Notebook (re-read)
>
>Liked all of these.