2347 Years
Just wanted to point out an amusing reference. We find out that Riddley's world is 2347 years after the 1 Big 1.

I subvocalize everything I read. I've tried to break the habit occasionally, but I've pretty much given up. This means I read really f-in slooow. But it makes reading Riddley Walker a lot easier. So I've got that going for me.

The Alexandria Quartet *is* stunning. I've meant to reread that for at least a decade now.

SMALL GODS. SMALL GODS. SMALL GODS.

HIGH RISE is great and Ballard is such an important figure. CRASH would drive people from the room…

VALIS would be a really cool tie-in to _Wrestler's…_ since it includes lots of riffing on Gnostic Christianity, but with a very different tone.

Yet more suggestions
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
Omensetter's Luck by William Gass

Great idea. JR and Recognitions are waaay to long for this format, but Gaddis is really amazing (and I've not read Frolic yet :)

How about _Speak, Memory_, Nabokov's memoir which is about as novelistic as ostensibly non-fiction gets.

Or Invisible Cities.

GeoX: I replied to a thread up above before I saw your perfect capsule summary.

I *loved* it in college (25 years ago). Really rearranged my mind.

Yes that's a capsule summary of Midnight's Children; and a good defense of the ending, too. It just got less fun to read as it went on (which is probably also sort of the point).

Okay, okay (keeping hands in view) Postmodern it is :)

Since this book seemed like a less "serious" version of late Phillip K Dick to me, it might be interesting to see Richard Linklater take a crack at it.

Muldoon. Yes! The one part of the book that definitely did not wear out its welcome for me.

Rushdie is an interesting comparison. He also tends to start really really strong but by the end it seems like the other shoe never quite dropped.

I agree with you, FiveString (I know, what are the odds ?) It was a very pleasant read, but, like Todd, I kept hoping for more than what it was, or at least what I think it was. I kept thinking of Phil Dick's last three novels and how they used this same material (Gnostic Christianity, Western philosophy) in a…