apology

[John Bailey]

Hi Kyle,

these are interesting (or at least fun) questions and of the sort not often 
asked round these parts. Me, personally, well, I would rarely read a book 
twice without giving it that time to steep awhile, mature, air, breathe, 
settle, percolate, oxidise, infuse, whatever.

Hi everyone else,

I read GR last. There, I've said it. I think I'm way way in the minority 
here in that respect, but I'd be interested to hear how others got into 
Pynchon. It seems to me that the most common stories are a) reading GR cos a 
friend/review/psychic hotline/dealer raved about it, or b) reading COL49 for 
some sort of course and being one of the few in said course who go on to 
read everything else by the same author. That was me, Mr b), to my shame, 
and was followed by, respectively, V. (loved it), GR (about 200 pages), Slow 
Learner, Vineland (about 50 pages, bored) M&D (straight through), V. again, 
GR again (finally finished), Vineland again (straight through and this time, 
couldn't put it down. I've since read each again at least once, excepting 
Slow Learner. So...my confession, really, is that it wasn't GR which got me 
here, and while I've come to appreciate the book and can praise its merits 
for hours, I wouldn't say I *like* it in the way I really do like V. and 
Vineland. There are parts I like, certainly. Anyway, there ya go.

John
P.S. Despite occasional moments of inattention, this groupread of M&D seems 
to somehow be going with more input and, amazingly, more amicability than 
earlier ones I've been here for. V. and COL49 really dropped off by about 
this time. Hurrah for youse all.


>From: "Kyle Winkler" <taos_hum1 at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: apology
>Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 16:19:14
>
>
>sorry i can't keep my thoughts strung together but i gots me another
>question...do most of y'all go right back to the beginning after the 
>primary
>reading of a pynchon? or do you let the first one kind of steep for awhile?
>......
>
>also, did anyone else start with GR first? i did. and i think it fried some
>wires. i should've started w/TCL49. i just read it yesterday and i think it
>would've benfited me much more.....by the way, TCL49 is a awesome
>book...[preaching to the choir huh?]...adiosciaohejdå>
>
>
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