Buddy Glass

The more I read and re-read him, the more convinced I am that he was one of the most important writers of the 20 Century. His dazzling, energetic and sometimes humorous narratives that so often threw street-wise references in with deep philosophical queries is astonishing. Anyone else love him?

Martin Amis: "The Adventures of Augie March is the great American novel."

Mike C

I've yet to get to him.

Recommended reading?

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Stewart

I've tried to read Saul Bellow and never been able to get into him. I guess I shouldn't have started with The Actual, which, at just over 100 pages, lost me within the first four.

He's one of those authors who I feel I will come to like one day. You know that way where you don't click with someone just yet, but one day you pick up their books and it all falls into place. Bellow's like that for me. He's one of those great American authors, like Updike, Roth, and DeLillo, that has to be read. But for now I doubt I'd get more than an page or two into The Adventures Of Augie March.

With Penguin relaunching their Penguin Modern Classics range with all of Bellows books I've been picking up one here, one there, to add to the collection, and will try to read his books in order, to follow his progression as a writer.

I've got:

• Dangling Man
• The Victim
• The Adventures Of Augie March
• Sieze The Day
• Henderson The Rain King
• Herzog

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