P mention: difficult books

[Mark Kohut]

"The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called
me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the day the milkman died. He had
been shot by one of the state hit squads
and I did not care about the shooting of this man."
                                                         ---opening lines of*
Milkman*

Might go down as one of the very good openings, I'd say...I feel the first
sentence of A Hundred Years of Solitude
in the first sentence, sea-changed of course. But I'm just showing off with
an unverifiable pretentious smoke ring.

If interested, Go look up what she said about how giving the characters
names just wasn't right. I trusted
her honesty in that.

I wish I could read Roth and this at the same time because not enough time.
Maybe I will anyway, so to have/halve
the reading time.

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:29 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I had hoped to never read Pynchon's name in the same sentence as
> Knausgaard's but here it is:
>
> "You don’t, for instance, read the torrential riffings of a Thomas
> Pynchon or even a Karl Ove Knausgaard the same way as you do the
> crystalline exactness of Nabokov."
>
> Interesting article:
>
> "Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult
> books"
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/10/anna-burns-milkman-difficult-novel
>
> Has anyone read "Milkman"?
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