[gmku]

I like Gatsby. Tender is the Night also is not bad.

I'm finding Simon Reynolds' book fairly interesting so far. He does on in about the last 1/3 of the book a bit too long about what he calls the New Pop of the early 80s, something that doesn't interest me particularly. But he writes well about the early postpunk/art-punk bands like PiL, Wire, Mission of Burma, et al.

Someday I intend to read Ulysses. My college prof only required us to read the first 100 pages or so and the last chapter, and said that was all we really needed to know about the book for his class!