Keith’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2010)

Keith’s comments from the Q&A with Derek Gentry group.

I haven't read anything else by Chabon (his publisher appears to be refusing to release his novels as ebooks, and I've all but stopped reading paper), but The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is excellent.

Infinite Jest is a tour de force -- an absolute whirlwind. Borrow a copy and read 50 pages. If you haven't fallen in love with DFW's sentence-level craft, you will probably end up hating it. If you're hooked, go for it. It defies nearly all of the conventions of novelistic structure, but it's chock-full of inventiveness.

I'm right with you on several of those favorites. I've read all of Vonnegut's novels, and I love Borges, Douglas Adams, and Nicholson Baker's early novels (esp. The Mezzanine). I haven't been able to get through Cosmicomics, but I loved Invisible Cities.
I'd add:
Richard Powers' The Gold Bug Variations
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Nicholas Christopher's A Trip To The Stars
Lorrie Moore's Anagrams
Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls