I found that especially in Marabou Stork Nightmares. Trainspotting was the most wonderfully disturbing book I'd read since Clockwork Orange. Read a little Welsh when I was editing a review of his last novel, the one about the sadistic cop. I probably should try Trainspotting. The writer from Silver Spring said 'not many' current books or movies will be classics - a quite different thing from 'not any'.
Few books survive their own generation, no matter what generation it is, to become classics.
Right you are. But, still, I do admire his writing. You should probably try Libra or White Noise, but if you don't like Underworld you probably won't like these either. In most cases, one or two brilliant minds have been followed by scores of lesser ephebes, disciples who rigidly apply the master's insights. What I worry about is grad students who know their Baudrillard and have never read Baudelaire, who know Derrida but not Diderot, who know Foucault and not Faulkner.