New Year Reading

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Changed my mind. PKD -- most anything -- but _A Scanner Darkly_ comes to 
mind. Of course, the question is whose mind?

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From: "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com>
To: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>; "Henry Musikar" 
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Cc: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Subject: Re: New Year Reading


> (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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