Only saw it mentioned once upthread, so let me just repeat:

"It remains a vital and triumphant piece of feminist cinema."
You can eliminate the word "feminist" from that sentence and it still holds true.

Love Pnin. I think it's Nabokov's most empathetic novel, though I haven't read everything he's written.

Laughed so hard you fell over the ottoman.

Kinky devil!

Just finished Going Clear, Lawrence Wright's history of Scientology. The book was recommended by someone on this feature last month; hopefully I can pass the recommendation forward.

I say bring on the love quadrangles.

Bleeding Edge is probably my least favorite Pynchon, but that's like saying "my least favorite Beatles album" or "least favorite Guy Maddin movie."

You might be. The general consensus is that the first season is Blackadder's weakest. In fact, they almost didn't get a second season because of it.

I hope the shot doesn't work. I'd like to see lots more of Evil/Possessed Stiles.

I wish it wasn't true. It helped get me through the Bush years.

The Daily Show.

That's not a bad description of The Atrocity Exhibition. It's definitely Ballard's most experimental, post-modern work.

This isn't going to help you branch out too much, but you might like The Alteration by Kingsley Amis. It's an alternate world novel in which the Protestant Reformation never happened and the Catholic Church rules most of Europe. The story concerns a chorboy who the Church has ordered to be castrated so as to…

Book friends? Cool!
Yeah, some people are better short story writers than they are novelists, and the novels by Angela Carter that I've read, I liked because I like Angela Carter's writing more than I liked the novels themselves.

Ah thanks. I've read that that's one of the best translations.

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There are a couple of books about M&D on amazon (just search for "pynchon mason dixon"). I haven't read any of them so I can't recommend one. They're mostly published by academic presses so they can be pricey. If you live near a university, see what they have in their library.

Who did the translation of the Quioxte you read? Just curious.

Little, Big was one of the selections of the avclub's book group, if you're interested enough to do a search on this site. There were some good essays and commenter participation. It's one of my favorite novels so it was good for me to see the variety of opinions on the book.

Thanks. I've only read the first chapter, which is both arcing and trembling.