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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:49:48 -0700 Subject: Re: (urth) RE: Other authors From: Jason Ingram--Apple-Mail-6-1046028508 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Perennial favorite 'other' author on the list seems to be John Crowley Jonathan Carroll's last two novels (_White Apples_ and _The Wooden=20 Sea_) are worth checking out. I'm not sure I would call Jack Vance "brilliant," but he fits your=20 other criteria. However, some people seem to have heard of him . . . Another thought, albeit out-of-genre, is Lawrence Durrell's _Alexandria=20= Quartet_; but only if you have considerable patience. Best, Sepia On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Steve Case wrote: > I want to buy a book no one=92s ever heard of that is incredibly=20 > good.=A0So I=92m coming to you.=A0I know lots of Wolfe-like authors = have=20 > been discussed on the list before.=A0Tell me what book I should=20 > buy.=A0(And by something like Wolfe I mean something well-written,=20 > thought-provoking, brilliant, and relatively clean.)=A0= -- --Apple-Mail-6-1046028508 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Perennial favorite 'other' author on the list seems to be John Crowley Jonathan Carroll's last two novels (_White Apples_ and _The Wooden Sea_) are worth checking out. I'm not sure I would call Jack Vance "brilliant," but he fits your other criteria. However, some people seem to have heard of him . . .=20 Another thought, albeit out-of-genre, is Lawrence Durrell's _Alexandria Quartet_; but only if you have considerable patience. =20 Best, Sepia On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Steve Case wrote: = = --Apple-Mail-6-1046028508-- Arial 0000,0000,8080 I want to buy a book no one=92s ever heard of that is incredibly good.=A0So I=92m coming to you.=A0I know lots of Wolfe-like authors have been discussed on the list before.=A0Tell me what book I should buy.=A0(And by something like Wolfe I mean something well-written, thought-provoking, brilliant, and relatively = clean.)=A0