I think Anthony Burgess is very underappreciated. Of course you've heard of "A Clockwork Orange," but he wrote many other excellent novels (not to mention music!). His erudition and humanism are immediately evident, and his work refuses easy parsing. He wrote a list of the 99 best English-language novels since 1939 and an explanation of his thought process in doing so. I've read a few of 'em...
posted by Brad Larcen 9/22/2000[edit]
