favourite novels

cos someone asked earlier in the day...

can't pin it down to one but i love the following:

Moby Dick
Huck Finn (Twain's travel/memoir books are also fantastic)
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Saul Bellow - Adventures of Augie March

Did enjoy Infinite Jest which some people mentioned on that earlier thread, though i think i love some of his nonfiction essays more

Pynchon needs a mention but i find him frustrating. There are passages in his books which blow just about everyone else out of the water but i always seem to struggle somewhere and get bogged down. The only one I finished was Mason & Dixon, which i loved, but i enjoyed what i read of Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day and will probaby have another go at them sometime

Nabokov - any of Lolita, Pnin and Pale Fire. All staggering in their own way. Most of the other stuff too is good but not as great as those.

Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves if i had to pick one, but there is all sorts of gold buried there.

Posted By: matt in london, Jul 4, 22:17:03