Warlock (was Re: But the world isn't like that

[Samuel Moyer]

I bought Warlock on line 2 weeks ago after reading the intro to Farina...
Still haven't recieved it - but I would be interested in reading it with you
Mark and others...

sam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wright AIA" <mwaia at yahoo.com>
To: <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:23 PM
Subject: RE: Warlock (was Re: But the world isn't like that


> Howdy
>
> um. "Howdy"! No one ever says Howdy in Warlock, not once, do they?
> I'd pitch in to a group read, I don't mean to sound like a churl. It
> *is* a good book, after all. I just don't think that there will be much
> in Warlock for different readers to fight about, and perhaps not much
> cross-pollination as a result. It is really pretty straightforward and
> P.C. and the different narrators are all clearly identified and
> distinct. There is none of the elision between tham that is so much fun
> in P.
>
> Kate Dollar to the doomed virgin Deputy: "What do you want from me? Do
> you want your whole life in one night?" I agree with your judgement
> about the female characters. I've never read any other Hall, so I can't
> generalize, but there are only two in Warlock and neither have any
> heft. And people deride Pynchon for his cardboard chess-piece
> characters! (Der Springer indeed...)
>
> I enjoyed Warlock. Would I enjoy another? Which would you suggest?
>
> Mark
>
> > A swiflty moving group effort here would, in my opinion, provide a
> > lot of
> > listers with a fresh perspective on our hero........and I doubt that
> > more
> > than a handfull will prove resistant to this book's charms.....
>
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