What are you reading

[David Gentle]

> While I was moving in a few weeks ago I met some kid who waltzed up
> holding a copy of Dhalgren... poked through the first pages of the
> book and I know I'm going to want to give it a serious go in the next
> year or so.  The Gibson intro was great - I've always been a Gibson
> fan but I don't think, before reading that intro, that I realized he
> was a bit of a revolutionary-minded person.  I would kind of love to
> see Gibson try his hand at some mammoth non-sci-fi-specific novel but
> that's just selfishness.
Dhalgren is great novel about boredom. It's obviously fairly easy to write 
excitingly about exciting things but to write interestingly about tedium is 
much more complex.

Personaly I've recently finished A Suitable Boy and reread the scifi novel 
Voice of the Whirlwind. Both are worth reading, the former because of it's 
mass and amiability, the second because of it's shortness and the way it 
makes the central character come across as a bit of an asshole (rather than 
the stereotypical "competant man" of scif fi).
Don't know what to read next.

DG