tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889658833051243065.post7299133650329935932..comments2023-04-03T13:43:43.375-04:00Comments on Kubla Kong: 76 American BooksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889658833051243065.post-60810536086784144222012-01-19T04:01:20.966-05:002012-01-19T04:01:20.966-05:00I await your opinion with interest. A greater cont...I await your opinion with interest. A greater contrast to the Gaddis/DFW/Pynchon (BTW I accept your exclusion of the latter, who is, despite his raging genius, inconsistent) axis could not be imagined. Settle back into the warm water of intellectual middle America. You are safe with Mr. Ford. Or think you are.....docmathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14290983725884867019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889658833051243065.post-38707205088609063762012-01-15T15:26:30.399-05:002012-01-15T15:26:30.399-05:00He is now on my list, docmat. As I write this, Ama...He is now on my list, docmat. As I write this, Amazon is preparing a package for me containing Everyman's Library's omnibus of the Bascombe trilogy.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931398523674902390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889658833051243065.post-11186651957083262432012-01-12T05:45:06.071-05:002012-01-12T05:45:06.071-05:00Please read Ford. "The Lay of the Land" ...Please read Ford. "The Lay of the Land" is - effortless. I hate his facility.<br />I got through IJ in surges of 40 pages at a time, interspersed with half-paragraphs( which in Proustian style could in fact have occupied 40+ pages) of a minute or so. It took me nigh on 14 months - which I attribute to a childlike refusal to allow the book to end. Proust took 3 years and then another year for the Kilmartin translation. I will return to DFW; Proust only for reference.I read the posthumous work with anger, awe and frustration.....knowing I would never see the riffs develop....<br />I know the editor had a tuffy on his hands, but I want A.N. Other to redo "The Pale King". Please.docmathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14290983725884867019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889658833051243065.post-18611042242236013042012-01-11T18:06:18.674-05:002012-01-11T18:06:18.674-05:00Gaddis I like, and probably The Recognitions made ...Gaddis I like, and probably The Recognitions made an early draft of this list--or perhaps Carpenter's Gothic. But, then, neither is a work that has come to define me or my tastes. Ford belongs to the list of authors I wish I had read (but have yet to bother to read). I made it through Infinite Jest once, so far--given the time, I will reread Proust, the complete 1001 Nights, and then get back to sad, hilarious, brilliant DFW ... someday, I hope.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931398523674902390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889658833051243065.post-52999113506697690452012-01-11T08:03:08.066-05:002012-01-11T08:03:08.066-05:00Your list - so you take the lumps!(I have 46 of th...Your list - so you take the lumps!(I have 46 of these titles on my shelves, so rest easy). Where is William Gaddis? And Richard Ford? Just asking.....Infinite Jest is my 'desert island book'.....and the subject of endless proseletysing( mostly fruitless) on my part.docmathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14290983725884867019noreply@blogger.com