Chapped 57, Chafing Britons, and Cerebral Adventure Boys

[John Bailey]

Yes it was, my mistake.


>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Chapped 57, Chafing Britons, and Cerebral Adventure Boys
>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:41:07 -0400
>
>Think it was Rich who described Gould's Book of Fish.
>
>P
>
>
>John Bailey wrote:as well read as one, can one, any one?
>
> >
> > Richard Flanagan's 'Gould's Book of Fish' is highly recommended, folks, 
>and
> > has been called 'the first masterpiece of the 21st Century' (well, 
>that's a
> > strong way of putting it). Mr Mackin first mentioned it here a while ago 
>and
> > correctly noted the lovely coloured print and gorgeous binding (though I
> > don't believe he used the word gorgeous.) The book has been highly 
>divisive
> > of opinions (and, like GR, reviewers have now turned to noting this
> > contentiousness as a way of avoiding having to actually review the 
>thing...)
> > And of course Pynchon is often noted in reviews, my favourite being...
> > 'Wildly ambitious, it has the cerebral-adventure-boy feel of Thomas
> > Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon,"...'
> > 'cerebral-adventure-boy', ha ha haaaa....
> > http://ae.boston.com/books/reviews/fishbook.html
> > see also...
> > 
>http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,729724,00.html
> > http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/05/1017206260960.html
> > I had the fortune of listening to Flanagan speaking at a cafe a few 
>years
> > ago, and he is a very genial and intelligent fellow.
>




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