Books you would like to promote.

THE GHOST DANCE - Weston LeBarre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_La_Barre

P. if this thread aims to promote books/authors which are currently off the radar screen then your entry works for me!

Is it worthy of a non fiction group read? Or is it best read in isolation?

The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard.

http://gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/6books_ockman.pdf

The answer to your question Z. is YES. It is a huge amount of information to absorb.

Am I wrong in feeling like Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker has a criminally low profile?

Don't know but intend to find out.

5> You are right on Martin! If people like Trainspotting, or A Clockwork Orange or The Road and can imagine those novels superimposed over, say, The Lord of the Rings, then how can they not love Riddley Walker?

>7 absurdeist: I know rite? I also heard it's been performed on stage, which makes me want to do it again.

Which rite is that?

>9 geneg: Dark rituals, rites of spring, take-a your pick!

Infinite Jest...March 1st.

Be there!

Or else!...

Enrique,
I don't know how many months in advance you have Library Thing unappreciated authors scheduled, but I have a stepmother who wrote a really good novel called Primal Tears and if you give me a couple of months advance notice I could probably get her on to Library Thing to have a conversation with people.

It's about a human/bonobo hybrid, named Sage.

I'd like to plug Music With Dancing (disclosure: The author, once, visited my writer's critique group, and gave me a free copy of his book!), which is kinda like Forrest Gump with a Guitar.

Por-man my man, I just noticed you gave 5 stars to Vollmann's Imperial and was hoping you'd comment on the book having spent so much time yourself in the area which the book covers.

William T. Vollmann's got a new one out, Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Feminity in Japanese...

I will. I need a little time to let it soak in. I lived in Rancho Santa Fe for a time and on my way to work I'd pass hordes of Migrant workers waiting to be picked up for work on one of the farm/ranches. Where did they come from? Where did they sleep out in she-she Rancho Santa Fe? They were there bright and early hoping to find some work for the day. EVERYDAY. It's all a great mystery to me. I've travelled to all the places Vollmann mentions in his book. I know any number of Mexicans from all over Mexico. Well let me think about it and I will say more. As to his new book, I find it a fascinating subject. Gawd there is just not enough time to form a useful opinion on these matters. Vollmann is a marathoner, that's certain.

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"Vollmann is a marathoner"
Yeesh, that's an understatement. More like 'Vollmann's never been able to stop running for his entire life.'

I love WTV. P.S. I have not gone wrong yet with a book recommended by Mr. P.