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Sounds like "The Recognitions" is the best place to start. It's long asf but it's the first book he wrote. On top of that, "TR" sounds like a fun read albeit with commitment. Speaking of introductions, will you do book rankings? Either ranking on books you've read for a certain year or books of certain authors.
Hmm, the closest thing I have to that is that I have my '2024 Book Awards' video coming up next week. I don't necessarily love 'ranking' books per se-usually I'll just talk about ones I love and leave the others politely aside. I think I'll elaborate on this in the Q&A video.
Thanks for this. Have been a little intimidated by his writing. And, frankly, I'm not sure I've heard of Carpenter's Gothic, probably because it's not on Kindle; will get it from the library.
Where to start with WG? For me, with the shitload of secondary literature on him. Which is quite marvelous in fact. I did the same for Thomas Pynchon. It works. It took me 2500 pages of Pynchon analysis, from pretty much every angle, to make him readable. Writers like these two, cram in their works so much information, that all the usual aspects of the novel get sidelined hard. So, standard approach, as going in blind, won't work, and they don't deserve it, to be honest. You play it like that? Well, I can do the same bro.
The more I listened to you, the more I was convinced that I needed to start with the recognitions. Your passion is beautifully contagious. Thank you.
Definitely check out Lost Scrapbook - one of the most underrated and underread books in the last 30 years....
You’d probably like The Lost Scrapbook or The Easy Chain by Evan Dara.
I’ve been reading his novels in the order he wrote them… Frolic is next! It would be awesome if you did a video on Frolic!
Sounds like "The Recognitions" is the best place to start. It's long asf but it's the first book he wrote. On top of that, "TR" sounds like a fun read albeit with commitment.
Speaking of introductions, will you do book rankings? Either ranking on books you've read for a certain year or books of certain authors.
Hmm, the closest thing I have to that is that I have my '2024 Book Awards' video coming up next week. I don't necessarily love 'ranking' books per se-usually I'll just talk about ones I love and leave the others politely aside. I think I'll elaborate on this in the Q&A video.
Thanks for this. Have been a little intimidated by his writing. And, frankly, I'm not sure I've heard of Carpenter's Gothic, probably because it's not on Kindle; will get it from the library.
This is a good video
Honestly, the best pitch here was for A Frolic of His Own. That sound like it is obscenely funny.
Where to start with WG? For me, with the shitload of secondary literature on him. Which is quite marvelous in fact. I did the same for Thomas Pynchon. It works. It took me 2500 pages of Pynchon analysis, from pretty much every angle, to make him readable. Writers like these two, cram in their works so much information, that all the usual aspects of the novel get sidelined hard. So, standard approach, as going in blind, won't work, and they don't deserve it, to be honest. You play it like that? Well, I can do the same bro.