In a message
dated 7/29/03 1:53:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zsteiner@butler.edu
writes:
I just finished "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"
by Italo Calvino.
Experimental, but very fun to read; not a common
combination. It is
also the only book written in second person,
that I have read.
Zach
EXCELLENT book, as is his "Six Memos For The Next
Millenium" and "Invisible Cities."
And so are "Mr. Palomar" and "The Castle of Crossed
Destinies."
Murakami gets mentioned a lot on this list, though
all I've read from him are those occasional short stories in The New Yorker,
which I've enjoyed very much.
Last year was going to be my big Murakami summer, but
I ended up reading Samuel Delany's "Dhalgren" instead, and that took a long
time. (Someone on this list -- maybe Joseph Zitt? -- was talking about reading
it once a year, and... I'm sorry, but I couldn't see why it had to be so long.
I quite liked the whole experience of being cognitively unsettled -- I'd pick
it up and wonder whether I had already read it, or half-dreamed it --
especially in the beginning chapters when you couldn't figure out what was
happening, but all in all...)
Later,
Ben