Lists of favorite things

[Bekah]

Eat the Document was pretty good -at least I enjoyed it.  

Bekah


On Aug 3, 2011, at 2:54 PM, "Tom Beshear" <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> ----- 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
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>> I've just read in succession three novels of a genre they're now calling neuro-thrillers.
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>> They're all about memory  loss, a very hot topic at the moment for some reason.
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>> Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante  (protagonist with rapidly progressing dementia)
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>> Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta (protagonist who fears oncoming Alzheimer's because of family history)
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>> Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson (protagonist with trauma induced amnesia of a very peculiar kind}
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>> 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.
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