Gravity's Rainbow Group Read

Matthew Ryan matthew.ryan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 14:14:29 CDT 2005


I happen to be rereading GR (with the companion this time), so I'd
definitely be up for this sort of thing and if it happens to fizzle out
halfway through or something, so be it.

On 10/22/05, Will Layman <WillLayman at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I think this would be fun, but I hope that the "hosts" for the various
> sections will refrain from simply sending out 35 URLs for each section,
> expecting readers to click out to pages of technical rocket data, etc. Not
> be too old-fashioned, but some thoughtful questions and relevant
> connections
> (with URLs but with some explanations as to why it will worth the time to
> follow them) would be great. Reading the book is work (if joyful work)
> enough.
>
> w
>
> On 10/22/05 2:17 PM, "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well as far as I know there has only been one Group Read of Gravity's
> > Rainbow. I happen to think/hope that there are a lot of lurkers on this
> list
> > who might come out and join in if we did another Group Read.
> >
> > Against my suggestion is the obvious (and credible) argument that it's
> been
> > done before, though whether it got finished i don't know.
> >
> > But I just thought, in the absence of a new Pynchon book, why not give
> it a
> > go?
> >
> > And there was always Terrance (where/why did he go) who promised us a
> > spectacular opener if we did it...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Mark Brawner <mark.brawner@>
> >> Been lurking on and off for a coupla-three years now, fwiw, and I'd be
> >> way into doing a GRGR, Mr Carvill.
> >>
> >> How many previous group reads have there been here, old hands? Just
> >> curious.
> >
> >
>
>
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