What I'm reading right now is Joyce Cary's funny, effulgent The Horse's Mouth
I've only made it through Basin & Range, the first book in McPhee's Annals of the Former World, and will read through the rest as soon as I can, but Jonathan Carroll's White Apples was due at the library soon, so I skipped to that -- good stuff, but he doesn't seem to be at his best in third person (the voice sounds an awful lot like the first, but with none of the benefits -- but there's sharp bits on sex, love, and death, along with a Humboldt penguin, some nice twists, random surrealism, and absolutely convincing moments on the malleability of time and identity. Well worth reading).
I've only made it through Basin & Range, the first book in McPhee's Annals of the Former World, and will read through the rest as soon as I can, but Jonathan Carroll's White Apples was due at the library soon, so I skipped to that -- good stuff, but he doesn't seem to be at his best in third person (the voice sounds an awful lot like the first, but with none of the benefits -- but there's sharp bits on sex, love, and death, along with a Humboldt penguin, some nice twists, random surrealism, and absolutely convincing moments on the malleability of time and identity. Well worth reading).
