talbotlucas.org: a word to the wise is sufficient

I'm chomping through The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Umberto Eco's new novel. Not that anyone asked. But here's what others (who were asked) are reading. I don't look to these sorts of lists for suggestions (except: see Harold Bloom comment, below), but I do get a kick out of the combinations of books that people select, or how they characterize their decisions.

In this list, I like the breadth of Tom Wolfe's selections, the clash of Janet Malcolm's, and the decision by Erica Jong to read contextually. I like that a few people are wrestling with Proust, and that Frank Gehry has employed his iPod to help. And I'm intrigued by Harold Bloom's comment that "I always regularly reread a book that I wish more people would read: It is by a contemporary writer named John Crowley and it is called Little, Big. It is almost literally the most enchanting 20th-century book I know. Hmm...