OT: MGoBookClub
I really enjoyed last week's thread on David Foster Wallace. He's a writer that I had heard about but never gotten into. But thanks to that thread and the links to his works, I was finally exposed to his writing. I also picked up a copy of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men which I am nearly finished with.
I wanted to see what else people are reading/have read that they would recommend to fellow MGoReaders. I'm guessing with the amount of academics/smart people that make up the mgoblog readership, there may have been a thread like this before, but I went back a decent number of pages and didn't see one.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:25 PM ^
"A Walk in the Woods"
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:55 PM ^
I just read "Blood Meridian", it was awesome. Like everyone said (and like most of his other books), gruesomely violent but beautifully written and the Judge has to be one of the top literary characters of all time. The purpose of this comment is to recommend the book and another called "Skeletons on the Zahara", I don't recall the author at the moment. It's about a shipwreck on the west coast of Africa in the 19th century. Blood Meridian reminded me of that story a great deal, the absolute savagery of man when the thin veil of society is lifted.
Anyway, I recommend both very highly.