Pynchonesque Rushdie

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 14, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

> I, for one, couldn't put down Foucault's Pendulum once started  
> reading it, because to me it was a very entertaining and thought- 
> provoking read. Jedem das Seine, anyway.

Thus were it always. The  p-list is so very diverse as far as taste  
in reading is concerned. Even with Pynchon. We surely must all like  
him. But for widely different reasons I feel certain. Doesn't this  
mirror our off-list lives as well? How often does a book or movie  
that some friend or acquaintance recommends turn out to have much  
appeal? Professional reviewers are also grossly unreliable.  No doubt  
there exist  thousands of people in the world whose tastes might bear  
a rough correspondence to our own.  Alas we are not likely to ever  
meet any  of these strangers.

But anyway what are you reading?




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>
>> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
>> To: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>> CC: "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: RE: Pynchonesque Rushdie
>> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:55:44 +0200
>>
>> Exactly, and there is so much fantastic literature out there which I
>> will never be able to read that I simply refuse to keep busy with
>> books that bore me from the beginning.
>>
>> 2006/10/11, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>:
>>> I loved "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", but then again, I'm a rock  
>>> 'n' roll
>>> musician.
>>>
>>>  I put "Foucalt's Pendulum" down because it bored the living shit  
>>> out of me.
>>>
>
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