The Empty Page Project
jd
wescac at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 17:00:59 CDT 2006
DM: I reccomend you do... the first time I read it was a little lost
/ annoyed at the characters too, but second time around it really got
me.
www.williamgaddis.org - the "reader's guide" in whole is on that site,
as well as a bunch of other nifty gaddis stuff.
On 9/14/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> > << Never read anything of Foer -- any recommendations? >>
> >
> > Read about six pages of Everything's Illuminated before I threw it away and I never throw books away.
> >
>
> Thanks for the vehement advice. I don't like throwing books away
> either. They have to be REALLY bad for that kind of action.
>
> As for The Recognitions, I personally wouldn't equate its worth with
> GR. But I couldn't make it past about 2/3's before the interactions
> and dialogue of TR's own "whole sick crew" characters began to really
> annoy me, and I stopped reading it. I may try reading it again
> sometime, because so many people testify to its greatness.
>
> --
> David Morris
>
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