Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations!

[jbloocher at gmail.com]

What a great list! My thanks also (thread hijacking).

I assume you’ve read all the gothic œuvre, but my favourite is Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer.

Also I’m also guessing you’ve been there and done that with all of Jeff Vandermeer’s work(?)

Jb

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> On 4 Nov 2019, at 05:19, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Your suggestions were all pretty spot-on.
> 
> Some of them, I'd read before. Some I'm iffy on based on previous
> experiences reading the suggested author. Some I'm keeping on a list
> for potential future checking out.
> 
> But so far, here are the three Pynchon-list suggestions that I will
> most definitely be reading soon (as I have ordered all three from
> Amazon tonight):
> 
> The Vorrh, by Brian Catling ~ It's the first of a trilogy that sounds
> VERY much up my alley, from the description at the publisher's page.
> Thanks Gary W!
> 
> Les Chants de Maldoror, by the Compte de Lautreamont (Isidore Ducasse)
> ~ A French language, illustrated version of this favorite of mine from
> my first post-higher learning decade, spent delving into what I liked
> to call the World of Aberrant Thought! And so, thanks to the P-list
> (and Jan D!) I've found this year's French classic to read! I try to
> read one contemporary and one classic tome in French every year, to
> stave off the inevitable decay of whatever cerebro-linguistic bonds to
> my beloved mother tongue may yet remain.
> 
> The Twenty Days of Turin, by Giorgio de Maria ~ A huge thanks to rich
> for helping knock loose a memory I'd been unsuccessfully trying to
> access for over a year... a memory about a book that I believe was
> briefly mentioned on this very list a log time ago, that had touches
> of Lovecraft and Borges, a title reminiscent of de Sade, and a cover
> illustration featuring the altered work of Satanic Parisian "decadent"
> Felicien Rops. Thanks to rich, it is now on its way to my hot little
> hands!
> 
> So thanks to everyone who helped me out! If you have any other
> recommendations, I'd still be happy to hear them.
> 
> And, finally, I usually post reviews of movies, books, and comics (not
> very serious reviews at all... just short little things, with a few
> impressions, basically to remind myself of what I've seen/read and
> what I haven't) at my blog TheMediavore.blogspot.com. Occasionally I
> take a crack at writing something smart on the rare occasion where
> something smart crosses my transom, but please don't judge my efforts
> too harshly!
> 
> Cheers and thanks!
> yer old pal Jerky
> 
> PS ~ What do y'all figure the chances are that we'll be getting
> another Pynchon novel? or hell, any Pynchon writing of any kind,
> really? Personally, I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to find out
> that he's written under a pseudonym at some point in his career, and
> this news will come out when he... well, once we can be absolutely
> certain that he isn't writing any "new stuff" anymore.
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