re-read atd

[gp]

I can see how some might view it as VL-plus.  Not me.  I think it
might supplant V as my second favorite, but it's been awhile since
I've re-read V.

I am having a blast with it as well - so far it hasn't been as
mind-bendingly, sometimes soul-crushingly as powerful as GR.  But it's
a solid goddamn book so far - around 240 pages in now so I guess it's
pretty damn early to be making a call like that.  But I have a
holidy-smelling candle burning, 3/4 of the way through my personal
bottle of good pinot noir, smokin' my (tobacco) pipe without the lady
bothering me, and dang.  I really don't think I'd be as at peace if it
was M&D or Vineland that had just been released.  Last Thanksgiving it
was re-reading The Recognitions that got me in this mood, this year I
think I'm having just as good of a holiday.

I would definitely be down  for a GR re-read at some point in the near
future, but I need to give M&D another stab after finishing AtD
methinks.

On 11/23/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm about 130 pages in, and having a blast with it. I think it's great:
> really funny, lots of pseudoscientific bullshit, ridiculous names, some
> great visual and emotional imagery, parodies of modern events and
> personalities, and I think Webb Traverse and Merle Rideout are great
> characters.
>
> All right now, fire away.
>
>
>
> On 11/23/06, Lary Wallace <pytheas76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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