New Year Reading

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(Re)-read of _Ulysses_ (NP, but definitely related.)

Modern Library placed at the top of their 100 Best Books of the 20th 
century.

It would take a long time and is difficult going, but still, always worth 
another read.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
To: "Henry Musikar" <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: New Year Reading


>
>
> My partial answer is: War and Peace. Not only because it is, like
> GR, at once huge and intimate. Also because the latest translation
> by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky has been, afaik, widely
> acclaimed, see e.g.
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20810
> (Have only read a Finnish translation myself, though.)
>
>
> Heikki
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Henry Musikar wrote:
>
>> Hmm... what to read next.  Chandler (Big Sleep)?  Dickens (where does one
>> start?)  Roth's most recent (whatever that was)?  Something or another 
>> that
>> I haven't read by Rushdie?  Finally tackle a good (recent) translation of
>> War and Peace (which translation)? Mark Twain?  Candide?  Don Quixote? 
>> Or
>> go back and try to get more out of V than I did the other two times that
>> I've read it?
>>
>> Henry Musikar
>> Sr. IT Consultant
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/
>>
>>
>


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