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There are some pretty fine sentences in Mysteries of Pittsburgh. One about the "snapped spine of a lemon wedge at the bottom of a drink" is still in my mind. And I'm quite sure haven't read the book in more than 20 years.
It was very influential on me and my social circle but I would not recommend it as a guide to life. (Of course almost no novel is a good guide to life, with a few exceptions like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.)
If MoP was the only Chabon people read, and he subsequently vanished from sight, I think that would be okay. I cannot and will not defend every subsequent career move he's made.
Ditto Wallace's Girl with Curious Hair. I don't THINK I am a "DFW bro" but I like that book a lot.
Ditto Franzen's Twenty-Seventh City, which remains a sentimental favorite of mine because it's set in my home town. It treads a line between being a conventional thriller and a reasonably perceptive realist novel.
― rogan josh hashana (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
"I like "Knots" by R D Laing."
i do too! it's cool.
― scott seward, Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:59 PM (eight hours ago)
i also love this book, glad to find other fans of it
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link