Nora Bossong recommends Mason & Dixon as Corona reading because it has so many pages ...

[Johnny Marr]

Now it’s my turn to admit I’d never heard of this before today!

Have read The Recognitions* but not JR. A scan of Wikipedia’s list of
longest novels reminds me of various works I’ve failed to approach:
Clarissa, Les Miserables, A Dance to the Music of Time, Women and Men, The
Dream of the Red Chamber.

I do also have A Suitable Boy lined up; have long been intrigued by Uwe
Johnson’s Anniversaries, which I believe have only recently been translated
into English; will probably give Atlas Shrugged a miss (I’ve seen two film
adaptations of The Fountainhead and that feels like more than enough Ayn
Rand for one lifetime)

My current reading pile is hardly the most esoteric - Alias Grace and The
Waves - but we’ve all got to find time to read the supposed canon
somewhere, so enjoy your reading time

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Been wanting to read MIss Macintosh, My Darling for 50+ years. Now I just
> want to have read it.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Mar 31, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Don't forget Gaddis for your list of doorstoppers. My favorite is J R but
> > The Recognitions is incredible and A Frolic of His Own is hilarious.
> (They
> > are all hilarious, to be sure. Carpenter's Gothic shorter, still very
> > good).
> >
> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:39 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Gary: I just read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask and damn he's a hell
> >> of a writer. Absolutely of interest to fans of Pynchon (esp. GR).
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:02 AM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> For those as lazy as I am right now, I have a virtual copy of the
> Albert
> >>> Finney UNDER THE VOLCANO that I'm happy to loan. Contact me off P-List
> >> for
> >>> details.
> >>>
> >>> -Allan in WV
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:39 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
> >> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Just see to it that your children do not destroy the garden.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Am 31.03.2020 um 16:03 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (Drinking mezcal, I'm reading Under the Volcano: what a great book.)
> >>>> --
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