what to read next that isn't pynchon

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          "Henry" : 
          Big Book:  Isn't there a comparatively recent translation of 
          War and Peace that's supposed to be top drawer?  
          Anyone read it yet?

Anthony Briggs for Viking Press: 

http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Leo-Tolstoy/dp/067003469X

I bought my copy two years back, but between Proust & Pynchon,
my eyeballs are in search of shorter, more digestable works. Not to 
mention this mounting pile of metaphysical texts constantly demanding
my attention. Evola on Heremetics is proving to be quite the education:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola

In addition to W & P, there are two early 20th century masterworks
that seem to apply—Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" and Thomas 
Mann's "Magic Mountain."

But I suspect the "open sesame" will be:

http://tinyurl.com/5vsju9

http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/Documents/Bios/regardie.htm