What did you just finish reading?

[bignewt]

Finished Silence by Endo, definitely fizzles out at the end don't get the "masterpiece" label it receives although it was an interesting time and place and described quite beautifully in that unique way of Japanese authors.

Started The Obscene Bird at Night by Jose Donoso

 

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[Orange.]

Finished Cities of the Plains (and thus The Border Trilogy). Tonight I started rereading No Country For Old Men. It clearly continues McCathy’s border theme that begins with Blood Meridian and the kid leaving Tennessee.

 

[Orange.]

I reread No Country for Old Men and read The Road (the only McCarthy novel I'd never read). The Road (or the combination with No Country's pursuers) stirred an impulse to go back to Outer Dark (or maybe The Orchard Keeper) and read forward again. I'll definitely do that one day, but I decided to move along to something I've never read, so I've started Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater. That so far is a wild ride. I have a copy of American Pastoral, too, and will probably buy a copy of his first novel Goodbye Columbus and the included short stories.

I still have Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow on deck. Which one would your recommend reading first? I guess it's fine either way.

 

[bignewt]

I reread No Country for Old Men and read The Road (the only McCarthy novel I'd never read). The Road (or the combination with No Country's pursuers) stirred an impulse to go back to Outer Dark (or maybe The Orchard Keeper) and read forward again. I'll definitely do that one day, but I decided to move along to something I've never read, so I've started Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater. That so far is a wild ride. I have a copy of American Pastoral, too, and will probably buy a copy of his first novel Goodbye Columbus and the included short stories.

I still have Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow on deck. Which one would your recommend reading first? I guess it's fine either way.

Between the two I think I enjoyed Gravitys Rainbow more but both are worth the challenge. Out of all the Pynchon I read I prefer V.

 

[bignewt]

I reread No Country for Old Men and read The Road (the only McCarthy novel I'd never read). The Road (or the combination with No Country's pursuers) stirred an impulse to go back to Outer Dark (or maybe The Orchard Keeper) and read forward again. I'll definitely do that one day, but I decided to move along to something I've never read, so I've started Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater. That so far is a wild ride. I have a copy of American Pastoral, too, and will probably buy a copy of his first novel Goodbye Columbus and the included short stories.

I still have Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow on deck. Which one would your recommend reading first? I guess it's fine either way.

Did you read The Passenger/Stella Maris?

 

[Orange.]

Did you read The Passenger/Stella Maris?

Yes, when they came out, Stella twice, and I still don’t know quite what to think about them. I thought about those books when the nuclear test lit up the night sky before sunrise in The Crossing.