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Otto ottosell at yahoo.de
Thu Jul 4 01:38:05 CDT 2002


As a Summer choice I would promote Victor Pelevin's "Omon Ra", in my opinion
influenced by Pynchon. It's relatively short and very humorous/ironic.

The SL-stories read in the light of the master's comments, a good idea too.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <MalignD at aol.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: next


>
> >From: MalignD at aol.com
> >
> >Pale Fire would really be fun.
>
> Fun for you, but maybe too dry for the general P-List.  It is
> "Action-Lacked" wouldn't you say?
> >
> >Vineland is a mediocre effort, recently done,
>
> Recantly done, and not my favorite, not even in my top ten.
>
> >and Moby Dick seems to me bound to lumber to a slow death in this forum.
>
> _Slow Learner_ might be a good compromise, especially for the summer.  Or
> maybe _The Confidence Man."  Both are short.
>
> Do you have a more summer choice?
>
> David Morris
>


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