# Reading list *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 May 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### adam louis stephanides *28 May 1998, 17:02* > On Wed, 27 May 1998 Mark Kelly wrote: > To those people who suggested "The Magus" by John Fowles, and the > "Gormenghast" trilogy by Mervyn Peake, I heartily agree. I would also > add a book called "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser, which is a novel > with an extremely complex plot set in Dickensian London. Palliser's subsequent book, entitled "Betrayals" IIRC, is also rather Wolfeian, in that it consists of a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, the connections between which must be deduced by the reader. --Adam ---