GRGR(24)Re: That Little Package

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Seb Thirlway <seb at thirlway.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> how about a
> poll - how many readers liked GR (and especially, liked GR past
> this point, which for me has always been the point where it
> starts getting very difficult - around page 550) on first
> reading?  You've just pointed out a connection which is obviously
> there and meant, because now, 500-odd pages later, the question -
> how much has all that paranoia been a pretence, and possibly a
> necessary pretence on the part of the characters - starts kicking
> in in a way which is not pleasant.  But how easy is this to spot,
> without exhaustive knowledge of the book?

I read it cold and alone, without the benefit of guidance from some
lit. prof.  I loved every page, though not, as I've pointed out before
to general yawns, every sentence.  Some of them are awkward, ugly
clinkers (as are my own, but then I'm not the writer am I, I'm the
reader). I *loved* it. Every page. And it hasn't let go since.

Did I miss stuff?  Of course.  Every time I read the damned thing I
find stuff I missed -- and that's a good reason why it's worth
re-reading, no?  

Did I miss the provisional nature of the several paranoid structures
which interect in such fascinating patterns throughout the book?  Not
at all -- this property of the "plot(s)" is clear all along, I think.

BTW Seb, I hope to get a little time to continue our exchange about
London, and the Knowledge.

Mark



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