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Off the top of my head, the only one I can think of right now is The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford. I half think, though I am not positive, that John Barth wrote a book which would fall into this category - but I can't remember if it was The Floating Opera or - darn, I can't remember the...

Yeah - it's a real shame that Dr. Thompson won't be around anymore. His writing was definitely getting uneven, but the guy had an absolute gift, genius really, for turning phrases. One of my favorites, which refers to Lester Maddox (an infamous American bigot), says that "there will be a...

Boy, this is a tough one: All this talk of Tigger makes me think of the fact that I am often compared to Eeyore (sp.?), but don't really think of myself that way. When I was younger and feeling more melodramatic, I often thought of myself in terms of Axel Heyst (from Conrad's Victory). As a...

Cowboy, At a rough guess, I would say that your book really isn't worth much. It certainly isn't old enough to have value solely on the basis of its age. The subject matter, I would imagine, would have limited appeal, so . . . But, by all means, check out alibris and similar sites.

I am primarily a "Jack-of-all-Trades" in the world of antiques. Dealers call me up to do everything from making deliveries to covering auctions; from repair work to loading and unloading.

Logan's Run maybe???

I read his book The Professor & The Madman. It was OK, but I thought it was a little on the "fluffy" side for non-fiction. Actually, with all due respect to Mr. Winchester, it read like a very interesting magazine article that had been fleshed out to book length with filler. I would like to...

I tried the quiz twice because I was up in the air about one of my answers ( a matter of interpretation) and came back both times as non-fiction works. The first time, I was a history of the United States - the second, the Dictionary. I take that to mean that the quiz, at least, finds me...

I've never read any Aldiss, but the plot summary makes it sound very similar to Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy. If I remember correctly, he often wrote stories and novels which consisted of nothing other than the bare reportage of empirical facts. The implication being that the reader would be...

Oddly enough, Amnesia Moon is on my TBR list, along with about 100 other titles. I will say that if you liked Gun, you should love either Anonymous Rex or Casual Rex. In an odd way, I found Garcia's dinos more believable as characters than Lethem's genetically engineered critters. I am...

I didn't really care for Miles' experimental/fusion stuff. I've heard Bitches Brew a couple of times, though. For me, it was a toss up between Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain - but when push comes to shove, you've got to go with the former.

Boy, at first I thought this was no contest - thinking of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds or The Third Policeman. But, the more I think about it, there are some pretty strong contenders. Samuel Beckett's trilogy Malloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable are bizarre - or Virginia Woolf's The...

Book: On the Road by Jack Kerouac - it'll offset being trapped Film: Shawshank Redemption - uplifting and cathartic Music: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis Painting: Maybe a still life by Charles Caryl Coleman Poem: Maybe Poe's "El Dorado" If limited to just one, I guess I'd have to go with...

I thought about suggesting that myself, but I didn't really think that Archie was quite cynical enough to qualify as "hard-boiled". Sure, Archie's been around, and knows all the tricks, some of them not so nice, but seems fairly cheerful. Maybe, in some ways, Wolfe is more "hard-boiled"...

I've read most of the Bernie Rhodenbarr (sp.?) series. As you say, they are pretty light reading - not that there is anything wrong with that. My only complaint would be that the series tended to get a little formulaic, and the trademark banter a little forced. But then, I suppose that...

As I think I said once somewhere else, I've read The Wind-up Bird Chronicles and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I liked both very much. Hard-Boiled Wonderland is, I think, his first book, and is quite odd, but one of those books that just sort of sticks with you.

If you're interested in Raymond Chandler, I strongly recommend tracking down a copy of his collected correspondence. The letters are wonderful, and just happen to contain some fascinating perspectives on how Chandler approached his work.

You might also want to check out Warren Chappell's A Short History of the Printed Word. It may focus on the incunabula period of printing more than would meet your needs, but still ...

Exactly, he reminds me of a guy on NPR - Karl Hass (sp.?) - who has the same gift. I only know him from the Borges stories, but I can't imagine more demanding material. Spanish, French, German, Latin, Arabic, you name it. Plus, as I said, he handles the material without seeming the least bit...

Crossing the street is one thing - crossing an interstate blindfolded is quite another. Besides, I'm not much of a bath person, anyway. I much prefer a steaming hot shower. The last time I took a bath was after I fell off my sister's roof, and needed to soak out soreness.