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To: oldirtybastard who wrote (166787)	5/20/2002 11:23:28 AM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<<did you read infinite jest?>> Yeah...it was hard work! Foster's prose is a bit uneven, but entertaining most of the time...I like Pynchon better in general (at least the stuff up to and including Gravity's Rainbow).

To: oldirtybastard who wrote (166787)	5/20/2002 11:33:51 AM
From: clochard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

what about this one: amazon.com

To: oldirtybastard who wrote (166787)	5/20/2002 11:59:03 AM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 436258

Even though I enjoy his work as well, Wallace is just a modern-day Barthelme imitator. Barthelme's "Me and Miss Mandible" is one of the five greatest pieces of post-war short fiction, period. jessamyn.com p2c2e.org I've always loved the stories "The Captured Woman", p2c2e.org "The School" npr.org as well as "The President" (no link available). Not a lot of exciting, groundbreaking writers out there these days... a lag effect of a too-long bull market. The exceptions are Lydia Davis, Ray Vukcevich, Nicholson Baker, William Gass, and quite a few others that I haven't discovered yet.