10 Books I Enjoyed Despite, Or Perhaps Because Of, Their Pretentiousness
Submitted by kbloom on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:58
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- 10) White Noise - Don DeLillo
- 9) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- 8) Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- 7) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 6) Underworld - Don DeLillo
- 5) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
- 4) The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- 3) Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
- 2) Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- 1) Ulysses - James Joyce
Author Comments:
I am assembling four or five hundred different comments. I promise that this time they will be color-coordinated.
Congrats! You're the first Listology contributor to outright enjoy Ulysses!
I haven't tackled Ulysses yet (mostly due to a bad run-in with A
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in high school). I have, however, read
5 of the 10 books on this list and enjoyed them all.
Which five?
White Noise - Don DeLillo
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
I liked it. I enjoyed it. I think perhaps all you can do is enjoy decodding it... You certainly can't read it for the plot (unless I'm missinf something) I have to confess I only made it to the chapter that is in the form of a play, and from then on simply skimmed.
you should try The Secret History by Donna Tartt... it's the best pretentious book i've ever read. :)