IJ

[Henry Musikar]

WARNING:  Dust jacket plot summary type spoiler follows.  It wouldn't kill
your enjoyment of the book to read it, IMO.



Has much been made of the theme of deadly media?  The first instance of the
theme, at least that I am aware of, was Monty Python's deadly WW2 joke.
Others of which I am aware are the videotapes in both IJ, and the Japanese
horror movie (I did not see the American remake) "The Ring," which was, by
the way, really quite decent.

Henry Musikar
 
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy --
Nietzsche.  So...
For most eclectic music on the WWW and a list of my favorite 50 movies,
check out my media page:
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Bailey
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:26 AM
To: Keith McMullen
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: IJ

On 3/16/06, Keith McMullen <schwitterz11 at netscape.net> wrote:
> Whew. That rant left me a tad woozy.
>

But it's a good kind of woozy...

I think if you took Neal Stephenson's muse, gave her a drug habit, and
then put her through rehab, and have her pal around with John Irving's
muse for awhile, she might resemble David Foster Wallace's muse...

or not...just musing

(my position to criticize: I've written exactly 0 books, but read - a
fair number - never have tried to estimate how many - always happier
when I am in the middle of a book, quitting novels to free up time for
other stuff never seems to help)

up to page 300 or so, not hurrying, enjoying some of the prose, not
reminded of Pynchon all that much at all
pacing and breathing is different, not unenjoyable though I do not
think he will displace anyone on my non-hierarchical list of favorites
(that doesn't usually happen anyway, what happens is the list gets
longer, or wider, or expands into Hilbert space or something)

now wanting to read Octavia Butler (the mention of tentacle telepathic
sex clinched it for me)



--
"Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!"
-Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose