Lists of favorite things

[Tom Beshear]

I finished reading Stone Arabia last night. Calling it a thriller would be 
to stretch that word beyond any meaning. It's a literary 
novel--specifically, one in the genre of psychological realism. Spiotta has 
done better work -- I highly recommend Eat the Document, her novel about the 
lives of Weather Underground-type radicals after the Sixties.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Lists of favorite things


> I've just read in succession three novels of a genre they're now calling 
> neuro-thrillers.
>
> They're all about memory  loss, a very hot topic at the moment for some 
> reason.
>
> Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante  (protagonist with rapidly progressing 
> dementia)
>
> Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta (protagonist who fears oncoming Alzheimer's 
> because of family history)
>
> Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson (protagonist with trauma induced 
> amnesia of a very peculiar kind}
>
> Was happy with all three.  Well enough written. Stone Arabia probably 
> shouldn't even be call genre. Recommend it for people knowledgeable about 
> punk and related music.
>
> P
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