Dead Man in Deptford17 reviews Anthony Burgess VINTAGE (RAND), 2005 Elizabethan! + Elizabethan intrigue + Worth the effort + Which Marlowe are we talking about? Oh, that one. + Dead Man in Deptford             From Cuba With a Song (Sun & Moon Classics) Severo Sarduy Sun & Moon Press, 2000             Darconville's Cat11 reviews Alexander Theroux Holt Paperbacks, 1996 "Silence [is] the unbearable repartee." + Genius! + A Masterpiece..... + Perfection + A little too melodramatic for my taste             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...             Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews Thomas Carlyle Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 A powerful and profound book + My all-time favorite book + Altrusm for the times + Small print, but wonderful.             Hadrian the Seventh (New York Review Books Classics)14 reviews Fr. Rolfe NYRB Classics, 2001 Different + Nothing like this in all English Literature + A Twist on Catholicism I read this a long time ago and it left a very distinct and longlasting aftertaste. In my childhood, I met more than a few Catholics caught up with the elaborate outer crust, rituals and language of this religion, the religion of my childhood. Hadrian the seventh is more extreme in this way than ...             Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)197 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 1999 Mean Girls Haven't read FINNEGANS WAKE in many years, probably not since grad school, but here it is again, everybody talking about it for some reason--it's resumed its place in the zeitgeist, the way Frank O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency," featured on the season opener of MAD MEN, is now rising up ...             Three Wogs: A Novel5 reviews Alexander Theroux Holt Paperbacks, 1997 Theroux's style can be daunting, but try it! + "It all goes back to Cain, doesn't it?" + Wogs Blog + Theroux's command of language is spectacular. + Prose Style             Ulysses395 reviews James Joyce Vintage, 1990 Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses + Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses + Mount Everest for Readers 1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed. 2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...             Springer's Progress4 reviews David Markson Dalkey Archive Press, 1999 5 Stars Not Enough + Springer's No Pilgrim! + Best of Joyce An amazing book. As Lucien Springer lurks anent the maidens' sh**teries, so should we all. Totally unlike anything written before it, by a Lowry/Gaddis/Joyce scholar. Rewards rereadings, giving pleasure on every page. And did I mention that it's a love story? Markson will have you playing 'spot ...             The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)22 reviews Robert Burton NYRB Classics, 2001 Vivisect your mind + Take Small Bites! + melancholy of anatomy + Incredible..             The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais (Centennial Book; a Wake Forest Studium Book)2 reviews Fran?ois Rabelais University of California Press, 1999 the modern translation to read Just as relevant as Donald Frame's translation of Montaigne is his translation of Rabelais. Besides this is the only reasonably priced editon of Rabelais with his complete works along with annotations that I could find.             A Clockwork Orange619 reviews Anthony Burgess W. W. Norton & Company, 1986 Fantastic, yet complicated + Fantastic novel + A Clockwork Orange + Good but have to work to get into             Hadrian the Seventh (New York Review Books Classics)14 reviews Fr. Rolfe NYRB Classics, 2001 Different + Nothing like this in all English Literature + A Twist on Catholicism I read this a long time ago and it left a very distinct and longlasting aftertaste. In my childhood, I met more than a few Catholics caught up with the elaborate outer crust, rituals and language of this religion, the religion of my childhood. Hadrian the seventh is more extreme in this way than ...             Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics)6 reviews Thomas Carlyle Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 A powerful and profound book + My all-time favorite book + Altrusm for the times + Small print, but wonderful.             The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics)22 reviews Robert Burton NYRB Classics, 2001 Vivisect your mind + Take Small Bites! + melancholy of anatomy + Incredible..             Dead Man in Deptford17 reviews Anthony Burgess VINTAGE (RAND), 2005 Elizabethan! + Elizabethan intrigue + Worth the effort + Which Marlowe are we talking about? Oh, that one. + Dead Man in Deptford             Ulysses395 reviews James Joyce Vintage, 1990 Ten Reasons to Re-read Ulysses + Amazon Recommends I: James Joyce's Ulysses + Mount Everest for Readers 1. When you tried it in college, it was a task, a challenge, an intellectual mountain to climb, a test of your literary mettle. Perhaps if you read it apart from any course, as I did, you felt you failed. 2. In the intervening time you've read perhaps hundreds of Modernist and post-modernist ...             Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)197 reviews James Joyce Penguin Classics, 1999 Mean Girls Haven't read FINNEGANS WAKE in many years, probably not since grad school, but here it is again, everybody talking about it for some reason--it's resumed its place in the zeitgeist, the way Frank O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency," featured on the season opener of MAD MEN, is now rising up ...             The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)51 reviews Laurence Sterne Penguin Classics, 2003 Postmodern before modern + I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby + Pre-modernist postmodern A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to. Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...