_House of Leaves_ is amazing, esp for a first published novel. One of the more interesting books to hit the big time in quite a while. Kind of an HP Lovecraft meets Borges. Nice experimentation with form, and wonderfully playful and creepy at the same time. _Dhalgren_ is brilliant. Pure Delaney at his best, except for maybe Hogg. Almost required reading for anyone creating art, esp writers. One of his few that's as gripping emotionally as well as intellectually. _The Consumer_ I found dissappointing, but it's been a couple years. Perhaps I'd feel differently now. I remember liking the title story, but not much of the rest. Many of them seemed to be soley about shock value, and lacked real substance. Almost a dumbed down Splatter Punk style. This coming from a long time Swans fan. The Moore novel sounds interesting...one of the better writers of comics around, after maybe Chris Ware. I'd be curious to see him work in another format. On my to read shelf: _Libra_ by Don Delillo, _Blood of Mugwump_ by Doug Rice, _Hebdomeros_ by Giorgio de Chirico, Short Works by Octavia Butler, _Eunoia_ and _Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science_ by Christian Bok, and a slew of lit mags I need to catch up on. Good reading, everybody. Matt