AtD (spoiler) Re: re-read atd

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

 For me it's GR plus, with loads of "49" thrown into the bargain. Thing is, there's good guys and bad guys in this book and no way to weasel out from declaring who's good and who's bad. Just no way. The fact that the central story is about the Traverses, see . . . .


". . . .readers are referred to The Chums of Chance in the Bowels of the Earth---for some reason one of the less appealing of this series, letters having come as far away as Tunbridge Wells, England, expressing displeasure, often quite intense, with my harmless little intraterrestrial scherzo." AtD 117)

Hey . . . . "Boils of da Eoidt? Don't dat mean underground? Ya don't tink dat meybe da author knows about dis already?

Re-read Against the Day s l   o      w        l                y. I'm catching all sorts of stuff on the second pass that I missed on the first. 

I say, let's not start a group read till at least till Bridget, shall we? I choose to take on the T.W.I.T.s. Disturbing little coven, that.

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Lary Wallace <pytheas76 at yahoo.com>
> I'd be down for an AtD group-(re) read, definitely. I'd much rather do GR, but I 
> understand you guys recently went there, did that, and I missed the bus. That's 
> cool--I guess I'll be reading it with Weinberger. But back to AtD: do you really 
> think it's Vineland-plus? I don't think I've ever even cracked a copy of 
> Vineland, but of the major works, I would definitely have to say that, so far, 
> this is the best. But as some of you already know, from off-list correspondence, 
> I'm something of a Pynchon agnostic, something of a crasher at this party. 
> DeLillo is by far my favorite writer, so it makes sense that this new book would 
> be my favorite. But come one, man--Vineland plus? From everything I've heard 
> about Vineland (again, I haven't read it), that's harsh. 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: terrance terrance <terrorence at hotmail.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:25:40 PM
> Subject: re: re-read atd
> 
> 
> Just finished atd. not sure......but  it's not as great as gr. it's not as 
> good as m&d. it's vl plus.
> 
> read all the reviews and most of the crap posted here.
> 
> when are we gonna read it?
> 
> I'll take the labor read.
> 
> i expect the re-reading of the  book with yall will be better than any 
> review or any professional book on  the book.
> 
> letz do it,
> 
> tf
> 
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