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doommeow wrote:Don't know how modern he'd be considered these days, but are you down with Paul Auster?

Leviathan, New York trilogy, are great. In the country of last things is probably my favorite novel.

Have taken your recommendation and bought Leviathan (plus some other good sounding books). Thanks man! Just gotta finish what I'm already reading first...

Asher and Adams' Pictorial Album of American Industry, 1876
Awesome book. Reminds me of those books I read when I was little that showed cross-sections of ships and stuff, but with more text.
And all that machine porn.

Words of Radiance.

doommeow wrote:Don't know how modern he'd be considered these days, but are you down with Paul Auster?

Leviathan, New York trilogy, are great. In the country of last things is probably my favorite novel.

Thanks so much for that!! Picked up Leviathan, I'm about 3/4 through it and it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. So good.

About to start on The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard. Seems like something I will love.

monkeydancer wrote:

doommeow wrote:Don't know how modern he'd be considered these days, but are you down with Paul Auster?

Leviathan, New York trilogy, are great. In the country of last things is probably my favorite novel.

Thanks so much for that!! Picked up Leviathan, I'm about 3/4 through it and it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. So good.

I really liked In the Country of Last Things.

Started reading a bit of David Foster Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System, before moving on to Infinite Jest. I haven't quite gotten a hold of it yet. His style is very unique. The humor, constant diversions and digressions makes it sort of a fragmented and strange read, to the degree that it makes me feel a bit uneasy. In other word, I think I like it, but I'm not certain yet.

Infinite jest was an enjoyable beat down

terminator wrote:Infinite jest was an enjoyable beat down

Indeed. Never watch TV again.

Chankgeez wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:

Is this a good one?

I love his writing, but he can be hit or miss.

Started it. Its a good one.

Speaking of Pynchon, I've got Vineland sitting on my desk. Started it in a moment of boredom and I'm not sure if I can be stuffed finished it.

I've definitely started and stopped a couple pynchon books. And now I've lost them.

terminator wrote:I've definitely started and stopped a couple pynchon books. And now I've lost them.

I abandoned Infinite Jest one time because I lost my bookmarked page (roughly 2/3rds of the way though) after setting it down for a couple months.

Eivind August wrote:About to start on The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard. Seems like something I will love.

haven't read that one yet but anything Ballard is top-notch imo.

I'm halfway through Zero History by William Gibson.

Just finished Brave New World as an introduction to Huxley and hot damn was it good