Hmm, I haven't been bumping this like I used to. I have no desire to list all of the books I've read since november (all you fellow readers should sign up for goodreads. My book list is here. If you get sign up, just add me)
Anywho. The last book I read was Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It was a surprisingly good book. A nonfictional account of the chief architect of the 1894 world's fair contrasted with one of the U.S.'s first serial killers, this book reads like a novel and seems to provide the spirit of our country exploding onto the world stage in both good and terrible ways. I highly, highly recommend it.
Right now I'm reading American Pastoral by Philip Roth and it's killing me. It's such a magnificent book that I am overwhelmed and devastated by it.
Trynant: I'm glad you liked Vineland, as it's also one of my favorite Pynchon novels. I think V., however, is my next favorite, followed by Gravity's Rainbow (which I still love, only it is a little too sprawling for me) then Crying of Lot 49 and then Mason & Dixon which I hated. Which reminds me, I recently picked up his book of short stories Slow Learner and I'm excited to get to them. "Entropy" introduced me to Pynchon specifically and well wrought post-modernism in general. At the time, ignorant as I was, I had never heard of him and I thought, WOW, this is some good writing, I need to pick up his other stuff. I'm curious to see how it holds up coming back to it.
~Jason
edit: fixed your name. I know that it's not tyrant, but everytime i try to spell it, I just write the word that's actually a word. I hate the internet.
Anywho. The last book I read was Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It was a surprisingly good book. A nonfictional account of the chief architect of the 1894 world's fair contrasted with one of the U.S.'s first serial killers, this book reads like a novel and seems to provide the spirit of our country exploding onto the world stage in both good and terrible ways. I highly, highly recommend it.
Right now I'm reading American Pastoral by Philip Roth and it's killing me. It's such a magnificent book that I am overwhelmed and devastated by it.
Trynant: I'm glad you liked Vineland, as it's also one of my favorite Pynchon novels. I think V., however, is my next favorite, followed by Gravity's Rainbow (which I still love, only it is a little too sprawling for me) then Crying of Lot 49 and then Mason & Dixon which I hated. Which reminds me, I recently picked up his book of short stories Slow Learner and I'm excited to get to them. "Entropy" introduced me to Pynchon specifically and well wrought post-modernism in general. At the time, ignorant as I was, I had never heard of him and I thought, WOW, this is some good writing, I need to pick up his other stuff. I'm curious to see how it holds up coming back to it.
~Jason
edit: fixed your name. I know that it's not tyrant, but everytime i try to spell it, I just write the word that's actually a word. I hate the internet.
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