what i'm reading

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 Drkeyedayla at aol.com wrote:

> John Barth's The Sot-weed Factor (hilarious), vol 3 of Stephenson's Baroque 
> series- The System of the World (possibly the best thing I've read in years), 
> and Foster-Wallace  The Girl with the Curious Hair (shorts).   up next-  Gaddis 
>   The Recognitions, and yet another run of Giles Goat-boy.  In the pile, John 
> Crowley    The Navigator  & Helprin's Memoir from Antproof Case.
> Glad to see so many great titles I recognize, even happier to see some I 
> don't.......               Inky

	Cool, finally!  I've been hoping someone would praise vol III.
I haven't read them, they sit waiting, and all the boos and hisses about
III have been making me wonder.
        I'm currently reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck, but the
best book I read last year, by far,  was The Marx Family Saga by Juan
Goytisolo.  It's short, you can read it in a few hours, and truly
astounding.  If you like that, read his The Virtues Of The Solitary Bird.

	veg