ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[jd]

There are still ungodly amounts of remaindered copies of M&D at a
couple bookstores where I'm at, they just keep popping up every year
or so, hardcover and paperback.  Even for $7 no one seems to want a
copy.  It's how I got mine, though.  Already have a copy of Proust's
Remembrance of Things Past stuffed into two volumes that I'll get
around to one of these days though.

On 8/8/06, Steve Maas <tyronemullet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> While I agree Pynchon will never be a Dan Brown, thank god for small favors,
> I am sure I remember that M&D was on the NYT and other bestseller lists for
> a time.
>
> Though I have no doubt that many of those copies were never read....
>
> Steve Maas
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> Robinlandseadel wrote:
> I work in a bookstore. Nobody---and I mean nobody---ever came up to me and
> asked "Where can I find a copy of 'Mason & Dixon'?". When I showed up at the
> job six years ago, the store had stacks of remaindered copies of "M&D" and
> DeLillo's "Underworld" (I Bought three of the hardbound copies of "M&D" and
> one of "Underworld" [definitely a choice book for Pynchoniods]). Pynchon,
> despite the Simpsons, never will be a Dan Brown or even a Chuck
> Palahnuik---it's rather dubious that "ATD" will move that many copies,
> particularly considering its potential qualities as a doorstop.
> Telemarketing won't help, infomercials won't help.
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