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... a brave soul pyrocow! You've got several 1000-plus page tomes there, not to mention the 750-plus page tomes like JR and Gravity's Rainbow while which not as long as The Tale of Genji, say, are exceedingly more difficult. Good luck to you! I'll be cheering you on and ...
... My Tears, the Policeman Said
38. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
39. Pale Fire
40. JR
41. The Salmon of Doubt
42. 2666
43. Foundation
44. I, Robot
45. The Illuminatus! Trilogy
46. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
47. A Supposedly Fun T ...
... yce!!!
Tomcat, should we really punish ourselves something good, and pencil in The Recognitions...or, actually, I think JR is indeed more difficult because it's 95% dialogue; only Gaddis doesn't differentiate specifically who's talking, but has created such distinct voices that it is ...
... too that DFW writes 5 page paragraphs regularly in IJ, small font, on oversized pages. Be forewarned! Which reminds me of JR , a 700-plus page beast with not one paragraph break in its entirety; an exhausting but always engaging read.
polo...or maybe you could read Infinite Jest to your in-la ...
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Interzone by William S. Burroughs
The Immoralist by André Gide
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
J R by William Gaddis
and now that i've reached the halfway point's a good time for assessment: 43 books so far...i'm perfectly on my way towards my goal...very nice...
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Interzone by William S. Burroughs
The Immoralist by André Gide
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
J R by William Gaddis
and now that i've reached the halfway point's a good time for assessment: 43 books so far...i'm perfectly on my way towards my goal...very nice...
... (JK Rowling, Robert Jordan, Tom Clancy, etc.) as opposed to a finely crafted mega work (2666, Gravity's Rainbow, JR , etc.)
Since big works consistently sell, it's easy for the market to get degraded. If epics were scarce, then it might not be a devalued, ridiculed genre (is "epic" ...
... by Milorad Pavic
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
The unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
JR and The recognitions by William Gaddis
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
I love this meme ... I can personally vouch for The Recognitions and Ask the Dust as great books, and I'd also add Gaddis' JR ... Call It Sleep was very good, and if you like that you should also read his final Mercy of a Rude Stream quartet (A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park, A Diving Rock ...
... CAT member); and am dying to read the Bolano and Infinite Jest as soon as I get out of my exile.
On my shelves I have JR , and (not a novel I know, but it does contain fictional sketches and stories as well as polemic, ranting and journalism) volume 1 of Dostoevsky's A Writer's Diary (750 ...
#16 -- darsu, I think a JR group read's a great idea. Summer might be too soon for me as I'll just by then be coming down off Ulysses and undoubtedly need some time for decompression & heal frostbite on the appendages, but I could see jumping back into that say maybe in the Fall?
Wanted to ...
... revised review...
If you thought David Foster Wallace wrote obscenely long convoluted sentences, try reading this (JR ) two pound behemoth that has not one (not one I tell you!) chapter break in its entirety. It's like reading The Neverending Paragraph. If that sounds daunting enough, ...
Brent, can you tell us something about JR ?
... very much, but I think Gaddis is even better. He should be much more widely recognized than he is. I haven't read JR yet, coz I want to keep it in reserve for when I have read everything else. I couldn't live without the thought that there are no new Gaddis books for me to read. Carpen ...
How could one forget Underworld and JR , the latter, even at less than 750 pages, reads like a thousand-pager simply because there is not one (uno nada!) chapter break in its entirety. It's 90% dense dialogue w/out the he said/she saids to help differentiate who's speaking. Very slow going, ...
... in Deutsch:
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Hamsun - Der Ring schließt sich
Giono - Regain
Gaddis - JR
In Deutsch:
Grimmelshausen - Simplizissimus
Goethe - Reineke Fuchs
Jean Paul - Titan
Heinse - Ardhingello
Fontane - Stechlin
Frey ...
darn it....forgot about that
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William Gaddis Carpenter's Gothic J.R.
I've mostly been reading David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous this week around the holiday visitors but also found time to complete Steven ...JR and The recognitions by William Gaddis are both big books that are worth the read ... and, IMHO, so is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
... Kawabata, The Old Capital (the touchstone link with that phrase gives me a book on Korean history...)
William Gaddis, JR
Vergil, The Aeneid
Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil
Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Gadda, That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
Robert Musil, The Man ...
... back to A Frolic of His Own some day, but with 300 or 400 books on my TBR shelf, it won't be soon. Unfortunately, I think JR is on there now -- we'll see how far I get with that one.
As for your question about the 94% number -- that's an "affinity" number. It somehow shows how much (book-wis ...
I will say that that's the only Gaddis that I've made it through. I handed JR to another friend who's huge on Faulkner, figuring that he might enjoy Gaddis' style. He gave up about forty pages in.
Readerville is reading Ulysses starting ...
... mistress by David Markson ... another neglected classic.
Also, among the authors already on your list:
JR by William Gaddis
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
... a Booker, since he's not a Brit. But I can't keep all my lists straight in my little peabrain.
He won the National for JR . But from what I've read about it, I don't think I will enjoy it.
Oh, and RE: William Gaddis
As much as I hated A Frolic of His Own, I have both JR and The Recognitions on my TBR shelf. This tells me two things: One, that they won the Booker prize or are on some other "must read" list. Two, that I am too compulsive about my reading lists and must ...
... him ... I was "lucky" in that the first book of his I found was Carpenter's gothic, which is light reading compared to JR or The recognitions.
Hm. When I type braket JR braket , I get another title as proposed touchstone, but can get to William Gaddis' book by choosing (others) and then (Show all 250 possibilities). Title number 12. Clicking on it in this list adds it as the touchstone.
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