Well, I will have read Pynchon, eventually! I own two of his books….

Yes, and GOING AFTER… is a book no good reader should go without. Besides, once you read that, you'll probably end up reading quite a bit of O'Brian's other books. An amazing, amazing writer.

Coincidentally, I said the same thing at the last county fair I attended: "There's not enough Knut Hamsen love roundabouts! Ferris Wheels!? Every fair has those. Where's the author-specific 'love roundabouts'?!"

You need to register here, then! There's not enough Knut Hamsen love roundabouts. As for it being older, who cares. Surely that can't be a hard-and-fast rule here…. GROWTH OF THE SOIL could have come out yesterday for all that most people have heard about it.

Okay, that's at least two of us who have been regular WuiB commenters this year.

I like it.
It reminds me quite a bit of a more choral, vocal-centric mum.

Goddammit, somebody needs to explain this crap.

Me too.

Yeah! I haven't read as much Philip K. Dick as I'd like, so bring it.

NIXONLAND would be cool. But my guess, from past threads, is that 1/2 of the regular commenters here have already read PLEASE KILL ME.

I'm intrigued.

Here's a weird but great possibility
THE CLEARING, by Philip White.

FJ, that looks really cool. There are a number of copies of it available on Paperbackswap.com, and I will definitely get one.

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I've never read any Pynchon, and I'd really like to. I'd love to see a Pynchon selection chosen, but my guess is that everyone else has read him so that probably won't be a selection.

That does sound interesting.

Oh, and some more!
GROWTH OF THE SOIL, by Knut Hamsen.

James Agee
is without a doubt my favorite author, and I never hear his name come up in here unless I'm the one mentioning him or he's co-writing the script for THE AFRICAN QUEEN.

This book seriously pissed me off because it contained an idea that was a central part of a screenplay I had just spent two years working on. I've still never been able to satisfactorily rewrite the thing to exclude that bit, either.

Everyone's already read A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. How about THE NEON BIBLE?