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Audible cryptonomicon6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Not to say it’s always better, because many I had pined for turned out to be a disappointing, like Tolstoy’s War and Peace (how droll) and Harry Mulisch’s The Discovery of Heaven (about which I still scratch my head wondering why it’s considered the greatest Dutch novel ever written).Īlthough there seem to be writers who gravitate to it, I think the long form is far and away more difficult for an author to sustain. There is an engagement with a 700-or-so-page novel you just don’t get with a more conventional 300-page work. As of late, I seem to be favoring big books: long, more current novels such as David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (more pedestrian than I had imagined), magnificent Metropolis by Monte Schulz, Richard Powers’ The Overstory (wow, wow, wow), David Wroblewski’s first novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (so engaging I read it twice), Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street by David Payne (still struggling to get it going, but not giving up), Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (an unforgettable autobiographical novel I purchased in a magnificent bookstore in Taipei). ![]()
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