New Mark Danielewski book out

[Ya Sam]

I enjoyed it a lot. Sometimes I had a feeling that the author was pushing 
the gimmicky aspect too hard, but on the whole, that was one of the most 
original debuts of the 1990s.


>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: richard.romeo at gmail.com, peeralacks at hotmail.com, 
>henrywinklerjr at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: New Mark Danielewski book out
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:48:35 -0500
>
>I haven't read House of Leaves, so I just did a quick google on it.
>The gist of waht I've read on it is that it's ambitious, multi-layered
>and narrated, maybe a little too long, and relies overly much on
>typographical games (and the new double-sided book seems maybe of the
>same sort of cuteness type-wise).  That said (and maybe wrong) how
>would any others of you rate HOL?
>
>David
>
>On 9/13/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Are you so pessimistic about the state of contemporary lit? Of course 
>>Pynchon IS the ultimate source of anything that is worth a long wait. 
>>However, in the, say, 1930s for some it would have been Joyce, whose 
>>work-in-progress would have been the last great work to look forward to. 
>>It is inevitable that another really great writer will appear sooner or 
>>later.  My only worry is that he or she hasn't been born yet...

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