Thematics of AtD in other books

[jochen stremmel]

One of my favorite books of the last century is The Book of Daniel.

2012/12/10 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> I really like Doctorow's The Waterworks, a macabre tale about NYC in
> the 19th century
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> rich
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> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
>> I was trying to think of other books - by authors from TP's cohort more or less - that deal with some of the same themes that are in AtD (religion, science/ tech, etc) and I picked up a copy of City of God by E.L. Doctorow that I've had sitting on the shelf for a long time and realised that it has some themes that coincide. It then occurred to me that I haven't seen his name come up on the list very much, if not at all, as compared to Roth or DFW.
>> Do y'all read ELD? If  you have read City of God, what did you think?
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>> And speaking of authors who I've never seen mentioned here but might seem to fit in, what about Douglas Coupland? I confess I haven't read any of his books (I picked up Jpod and saw the pages in binary code and put it back on the shelf). How does he rank on the p-list?
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>> ciao
>> curious mc otis