NP: what should I read?

[Bekah]

Since you asked,  read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond and become really 
aware of the problems that face the world.

Then, after that obligatory political promo,  I'll second "The Names" 
or "Mao II, " but  I liked either of them far better than "White 
Noise" and "The Names" is better these days than "Mao II." 
"Underworld is Mr. D's very best of best but it may not be a good 
intro for everyone.

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"  is another excellent one!  Too funny!

How about Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy?  (*not* his new one!) 
Hotel World by Ali Smith,  The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie,  If 
On a Winter's Night a Traveler   by Italo Calvino
The Goldbug Variations by Richard Powers.  Lots more good stuff out 
there than I can get to!!!! 

Bekah





At 10:46 PM +0000 8/5/05, Sean Mannion wrote:
>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.
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