I'm so glad you read (and wrote about) "Masters of Atlantis."
A recommendation: Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System." It is witheringly, wickedly funny, absolutely and exactly correct, and guaranteed to offend everyone. Only problem is it's forty years out of date; our time desperately needs an up-to-the-moment new version of Fussell's observations, so we can know how to look down our nose at other people more precisely. Despite being old it's still an excellent book, though.
I'm reading once again A Dance to the Music of Time. Powell is a great writer, under appreciated. Like Proust he builds an entire world.
I haven’t read! Good suggestion thanks
I'm so glad you read (and wrote about) "Masters of Atlantis."
A recommendation: Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System." It is witheringly, wickedly funny, absolutely and exactly correct, and guaranteed to offend everyone. Only problem is it's forty years out of date; our time desperately needs an up-to-the-moment new version of Fussell's observations, so we can know how to look down our nose at other people more precisely. Despite being old it's still an excellent book, though.
GREAT rec—but already a personal fave! Only 20 years out of date when I first read it…
Ah, excellent! Will an extended review be forthcoming? Or (dare I even hope) will your third book be a "Class" for the current era?
This is related! https://open.substack.com/pub/joukovsky/p/the-creative-class-against-itself?r=7yhbb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Perhaps I will expand, but unlikely to book length—I have an idea for a third novel…
Aspects of the Novel is also brilliantly funny, which I wasn’t expecting
Too true! Great wit
I'm curious what prompted you to read the Truman biography this year? I read it several years back and quite enjoyed it.
Since you asked for recommendations, here are some of the books I most enjoyed this year: https://notjustmyown.substack.com/p/a-trauma-informed-best-of-books-list?r=1ezccm
Lingering Oppenheimer/arms race fascination—& ya I thought it was great