NP: Reading out of place

[Otto]

> an interesting question to ask of any book

I've just finished Stephenson's "Quicksilver", I'm in the middle of
Vollmann's "Europe Central" and have begun Kehlmann's "Die Vermessung
der Welt". Mitchell's "number9dream" is already waiting. Hall's
"Warlock" came yesterday and today is August, 25.

And, just to get an impression what was in the minds of Günter Grass'
generation Felix Dahn's "Ein Kampf um Rom. Historischer Roman" (1876)
is lying in my bedroom:
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/dahn/rom/rom.htm
(html version)

2006/8/25, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>:
> Just started in on this ...
>
> http://www.dunenovels.com/books/hunters.html
>
> That's an interesting question to ask of any book, but
> ... well, now maybe y'all can undersand my
> occasionally Geertzian/New Historical approach here
> ...
>
> --- Peter Fellows-McCully <pfm at anam.com> wrote:
>
> > ... is it possible to "get" it without having
> > experienced the cultural ambience in the book?
>