Books

[rich]

ive found most not all but most of Pynh's recommendations suck

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Took a detour to the "Pynchon Book Blurb" list, and now it's "Nog," by
> Rudolph Wurlitzer. In one of those fits of OCD online shopping, I acquired
> almost every book on that list, and may eventually get to all of them.
>
> Several people, not only on the Plist, have recommended Barbara Kingsolver,
> so she's a contender.
>
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> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:39 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Joy williams reminds me alot of Delillo--a master at the level of the
>> sentence but plots? structure? forget it. its all magic and dread
>> which is not all a bad thing either
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>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:11 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
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>> > About half way through Breaking and Entering.  She has great talent,
>> > sentence by sentence, very funny.  But I'm beginning to flag from lack
>> > of
>> > structure.  Where are you?
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
>> > To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> > Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 11:20 am
>> > Subject: Books
>> >
>> > After finishing M & D a couple weeks ago, I decided to read some shorter
>> > stuff.
>> >
>> > The Quiet American by Graham Greene, I'm sure many of you have read. Saw
>> > the
>> > movie with Michael Caine and Tarzan (never
>> > can remember that guy's name) last year, and didn't realize it came from
>> > this book. Great read.
>> >
>> > The Long Fall by Walter Moseley. Detective fiction. Good page turner.
>> > I'll
>> > read more of his stuff.
>> >
>> > Breaking and Entering by Joy Williams. Anyone familiar with her? Kind of
>> > strange and dark, but good.
>> >
>> > Slowly reading a book of short stories by Hughes Rudd, because I don't
>> > want
>> > it to end. Really dark and twisted and excellent.
>> >
>> > Then some Borges and Hunter S. Thompson thrown in.
>> >
>> > Ascension by Eric Nisenson, about the music of John Coltrane.
>> >
>> > Next? Conrad, "The Secret Agent", Alison Lurie, Barbara
>> > Kingsolver....suggestions?
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