Contemporary Fiction & greatest dead author/novelist

[pynchonoid]

I loved it but am only now, decades later, getting
back to re-read it. I've read most of his other books
as they've been published.  Love in the Time of
Cholera is very fine, too, imo.

Moby Dick I've read three times, Don Quixote twice, A
la recherche du temps perdu once and going back
through it again. I read the Bible straight through
once - some terrifying stuff in there - and probably
won't do that again. I'm gradually re-reading the
Chinese classic Journey to the West, very rich and
fun. But, compared to the total number of books I've
read, very few I have been tempted to return to for a
complete reading for pleasure.

Greatest dead author?  Why does it have to be just
one?  There are so many.  

Shakespeare, if it has to be just one author.

Novelist? Proust, Cervantes, Melville, Doestoevsky,
Tolstoy, Dickens, Zola, Balzac, and more, they're all
worthy, and plenty more of course. 

Proust, if it has to be just one novelist

Reminds me of the story my father used to tell about
the time he and one of his running buddies wound up in
front of the Jax brewery in New Orleans, watching
through a picture window as bottles of beer kept
rolling off the line.  "No way we can keep up," his
buddy says. "But that's no reason to stop trying," he
always used to add.




> >
> > _One Hundred Years of Solitude_ by Gabriel Garcia
> Marquez jumps to mind
> > (67?)  Other than that... um
> 

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