9/11 Novels

[rich]

Every Man Dies Alone was wonderful. Hans Fallada led a very
interesting life. the novel has some of the best descriptions of how
things felt on street-level (everyday citizens, police, politicos,
workers, etc.) in Berlin on the homefront during the war.

rich

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be clear, Netherland was the one I was referring to, but now I'm going to
> try "Reluctant". There have been so many great book recommendations here.
> Wish there was time to read all of them. Reading the Dice Man, but got a
> little bogged down. Anyone read "Every Man Dies Alone"?
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> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I also enjoyed it.  :-)
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>> Bekah
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>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Yes, it is.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On Mar 1, 2013, at 6:40 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> Netherland by Joseph O'Neill is often grouped with the 9/11 novels.
>> >> It's pretty damn good.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> >> To: “pynchon-l at waste.or
>> >> g“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> >> Sent: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 10:09 am
>> >> Subject: 9/11 Novels
>> >>
>> >> following recent thread, I'm not sure there has been a really good
>> >> 9/11-themed novel. of course Delillo wrote 9/11 novels before 9/11 and
>> >> then decided to write a 9/11 novel after and even Falling Man was a
>> >> real bland effort. tackling it head on like that as david morris noted
>> >> is not a good idea. it's still too fresh and too big an event to do
>> >> that.
>> >> I did like Matt Ruff's the Mirage, alternate universe take on 9/11
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> rich
>> >>
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