Little more than a pile beside the bed, awaiting development, organisation and comment...
Kicks from 1996
- William Burroughs
The best of the beats, and certainly the strangest. Naked Lunch is unquestionably the best of his stuff that I've read, but the short book, Queer is both a primer for NL and a strong analysis of alienated homosexuality.
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow: Brilliant like no other book. The Crying of Lot 49: Landmark. Read it.
- Trollope
Not a patch on Mr Popular Sentiment, but very good.
- Williams
Gifted poet, although his prose, particularly In The American Grain is much under-rated.
No, I find that kind of list unthinkably dull as well, so I'll stop it there. Pop back, and we might well have a slightly more coherent and worthwhile page.