what i'm reading

[Otto]

Not quite sure about that. I'm now in the middle of the book and
increasingly get the impression that the early Rushdie (Midnight's Children,
The Moor's Last Sigh) simply was better in telling family-histories.

Otto

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark A. Douglas" <madness at airmail.net>
To: "'Otto'" <ottosell at yahoo.de>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: what i'm reading


> Anyone who can weigh in positively on 'Middlesex' and tell me that I
didn't
> waste time reading it would be appreciated.
> Did not read Virgin Suicides, but thought that - what with the Pulitzer
and
> all - I ought to at least try Middlesex; finished it; was sort of mad at
> myself afterwards for buying in to the hype.
>
> Any positive thoughts on the novel?
>
>
> Peace
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf
> Of Otto
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:09 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: what i'm reading
>
> Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
>
> Marcel Proust (still)
>
> Thomas Bernhard, Der Untergeher
>
>
>
>