the next group read?

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
I read it a few years ago, on your recommendation, I think. I enjoyed
it immensely, and was planning to re-read it during our family trip to
the great west this summer. It ain't Pynchon, but then again, what is?
It is very good. 

Warlock the novel is a "wobbly" narrative, sort of a proto- spaghetti
western. Every bit of political content was carefully Hoovered out of
it, if not inverted completely, when they made it into a B-movie during
the Eisenhower Administration. The film was strikingly miscast with
Richard Widmark as the *good* guy, who can't hold the moral weight of
the plot against Henry Fonda's performance as the blue-eyed,
charismatic killer-for-hire. Possibly this film was why Leone thought
of Fonda for a very similar role in Once Upon a Time in the West.

I'd second Charles, if there is an appetite for something other than P
among Plisters.

Mark

--- charles f albert <calbert at hslboxmaster.com> wrote:
> Hall is certainly not Pynchon. That said, there is no doubt that
> there are 
> significant elements of WARLOCK which inform Pynchon's perspective.
> 
> One positive is that BECAUSE it is not Pynchon, it should be a lot
> easier 
> to focus on these discreet issues.....also Hall's politics will prove
> 
> potent kindling for a list conflagration....for that reason alone,
> I'd like 
> to see it done....
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:33 AM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
> 
> >>From: Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net>
> >>
> >>Warlock
> >>or
> >>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
> >>
> >>This is the Pynchon list and it is criminal to waste time reading 
> >>something unrelated to him.
> >
> >Criminal?  A little over the top, dontcha think?
> >
> >Warlock simply isn't complex or "postmodern" enough to be worthy of
> the 
> >Pynchon list, despite pynchon's blurb.
> >
> >I'd like to suggest Infinite Jest by David wallce Foster.
> >
> >Ghetta
> >
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