[lbo-talk] vacating; therefore, in need of fiction

[shag carpet bomb]

i'll be vacating in a couple weeks! People, I'm going on my first real live 
vacation! Paid even! I had my very first paid vacation in my whole life, 
last year, and visited family. This time, I'm going to lounge around on the 
seashore and visit lighthouses and museums and stuph. Whee! I'm renting a 
house with a deck, with salt water lapping the stilts upon which it is 
built. I intend to do nozzink! absotively posolutely nozzink!  [1]

except read. and look at lighthouses. and, omigod, i can go to restaurants 
and blow money on meals even. can you fuckin' believe it? i can't!

so, i need some suggestions. tell me what to read! fiction-wise! or 
anything else -- except badiou. i can't fathom why i'd want to read the 
egomaniacal fusspot on vacation!

i totally loved alice munro, who Mike Ballard introduced me to. I saw 
Infinite Jest in the store tonight and wondered if I should read it. I know 
Joe B will think so. I remember when it came out, visiting a bookstore in 
Toronto, pondering whether, as a gradstud, I had time to read that 
sucker... I decided I didn't, and didn't want to blow money on it.

anyway, sends suggestions my way. anything will do. torrid dirty novels 
would be good. whatever!

[1](i was so going to rent this one, 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyoCPYrTRsc. i took one gander at the video, 
heard the waves crashing and the birds, and boy, I was right there. but 
then I got busy and stupidly forgot to reserve it. it is now taken! ouch! 
oh well, i will rent it for my may vacation then! wait! i want to go to 
europe!)