What are you reading

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J. Hußmann [mailto:michael at michael-hussmann.de]
> Joseph T (brook7 at sover.net) wrote:
> 
> > So far the only Pynchon I haven't read because I 
> > couldn't seem to enjoy something about the linguistic pace and style. 
> > Too dry or something is Mason &Dixon. I wonder where other p- listers 
> > would rate that in the "PYNCHON PANTHEON"
> 
> 1. GR
> 2. Vineland
> 3. COL49
> 4. V
> 5. M&D (to be honest, I never finished it, and I doubt I ever will)
> 6. SL (I happen to like "The Small Rain", though)
> 
mine would be 
1) Vineland (just can't get enough of that hippie stuff) plus it is so multifaceted - I can contemplate it thinking of Zoyd, or Vond, or Frenesi as the main character, or even Weed Atman ("I'm not big, just tall, that's all"), or the DL and Takeshi combo
2) M&D (watching him hit his stride again after Vineland's Beckett-ian ending - the implied, "I can't go on, I'll go on"
3) 49 Tristero Dies Irae, tryst or odious awry, I need to reread this one again soon...1st time thru was disappointed the same way that I was disappointed with Foucault's Pendulum - no closure on the conspiracy...but have realized that is a feature, not a bug
4) V (need to reread this one and appreciate the historical parts, I've always focussed on the New York parts)
5) SL (my favorite is Flange, and although there's a touch of that Leslie Fiedler male bonding I think there's validity to his escape)
6) GR is too big for me to apprehend competently; need to read a buncha criticism and background material and tackle it again from a more educated vantage


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