Human Smoke

[Richard Ryan]

Malignd's mention of Eisenhower made me think....I've advocated
recently for Coetzee's "Master of Petersburg" as the next read - but
perhaps a more Pynchonian choice (and certainly one to create a lot of
spirited vitriol on the list) would be Baker's Human Smoke....

http://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civilization/dp/1416567844

--- On Tue, 8/5/08, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
Subject: Re: NP: Solzhenitsyn
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 5:02 PM

Well, you know, to each his own.  I recently read Eisenhower's book Crusade in Europe and it was not at all leaden.



Eisenhower, like Grant -- whose memoirs are largely Civil War history and very good -- was an excellent writer.

the gulag archipeligo is worth reading but the fiction, at least in
the later years, the red wheel books, is as leaden as reading military
history





-----Original Message-----

From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

To: kelber at mindspring.com

Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org

Sent: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:46 am

Subject: Re: NP: Solzhenitsyn









the gulag archipeligo is worth reading but the fiction, at least in
the later years, the red wheel books, is as leaden as reading military
history

rich

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've never read any of his books.  For those who have, how would you rate his 
strictly literary merits (if it's possible to separate them from his political 
merits)?
>
> Laura
>


 




 
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