tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709525799603919623.post6026396461289903189..comments2008-10-20T22:05:56.310-07:00LHOOQtius ov Borghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09704995101731304556noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709525799603919623.post-85405201247644208392008-10-19T11:34:00.000-07:002008-10-19T11:34:00.000-07:00thanks for the list as ever..i would add william gaddis, since i reread "The Recognitions" every few years and find something more period and American in it every time, yet simultaneously contemporary. i can now reasonably expect the Lives of the Saints to make it to TV.<BR/><BR/>and just the other day while reading the grammar of Newspeak appended to 1984, i found that the language omits adverbs and replaces them with the suffix -wise, e.g. "goodwise" "fastwise," like the dryly-panned language of the principal in "JR." <BR/><BR/>i'm surprised you didn't rate John Kennedy Toole, but maybe you think him overrated. i'm still reading Confederacy of Dunces now and have yet to decide.Splintered Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10854454170186115680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7709525799603919623.post-39899826764874747102008-10-08T03:30:00.000-07:002008-10-08T03:30:00.000-07:00Great post!<BR/><BR/>One of my favourite writers for awhile now has been Christopher Brookmyre (http://www.brookmyre.co.uk). His stories use very American-cinematic pacing and tone, but the characters, plots and themes are very, very Scottish. That is much of his appeal for me - his seemingly effortless ability to convey the Scottish sense of identity in his stories. And all the things about them that are uniquely Scottish act as a contract to his more universal themes &amp; characters, throwing them into sharp relief. Check him out.Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983050848907695211noreply@blogger.com