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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > What book did you just begin/buy?
 
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thomas pynchon
May 11, 2016

s7indicate3 posted:

'A supposedly fun thing' is glorious essay writing. If its hipster to read DFW then strap me down, curl my moustache and pass me the corncob pipe :smug:

I'm actually reading DFW's The Girl with the Curious Hair. I'm about halfway through and super into it. The wide array of voices he uses establishes him as a master of the craft imo.

Man, there are so many good stories in GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR. That opening story is just perfect. When the novella wraps everything up, it's just perfect. DFW's short fiction is painfully ignored among his body of work. WESTWARD... and INCARNATIONS OF BURNED CHILDREN deserve as much attention as JEST.

As for pickups, I grabbed ZERO K by Don DeLillo, because I love Don DeLillo but I hate myself. Also have a whole bunch of poetry recommended by numerous professors and I need leisure reading between textbooks about maths I don't understand.

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