How similar is this to JR? I'm about 100 pages in and so

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>>8428334
>reading books

holy shit he fell for the meme

>>8428334
Pretty similar, but there's a bit of Carpenter's Gothic in there too. Also the play excerpts and legal briefs mix things up a bit.

>>8428451
As a lawyer, I've loved the court opinions and other legal discussion. Gaddis gets it exactly right while really skewering my profession. The man had uncanny insight and must have really done his research (legal theories/common law rules he discusses are actually correct).

What order would you recommend from here. I have all of his books but this is the first one I've read.

>>8428500
Yeah, a lawyer friend of his sent him various volumes of this one really extensive law text (I forget the exact title of it, but he mentions it in his letters) and he spent a lot of time corresponding with that guy and some other people involved in various legal professions to make sure he got everything as technically correct as possible with a few intentional mistakes (pointed out by the characters) on account of things like senility or plain arrogance of the characters.

In terms of his other stuff, I'd say you can read the rest in any order so long as you save Agapē Agape for last. A couple of things to keep in mind when deciding on an order: Carpenter's Gothic is something of a light read compared to the other three, and his style in The Recognitions is pretty different from what came after it.

I went from The Recognitions to Carpenter's Gothic to J R to A Frolic of His Own to The Rush For Second place (mostly essays/speeches/etc. I'd say it's optional) along with his letters (also optional) and read Agapē Agape last.

You really can't go wrong with him, but again, Agapē Agape is very much a capstone piece and is a lot easier to appreciate for what it is once you've read everything else he's done.