Hard covers and lack thereof

[Ya Sam]

I for one, cannot imagine myself reading a Pynchon book on the train, 
without my huge Webster at hand as well as the internet connection I am 
afraid to approach this beast.


>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>To: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>CC: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>, Pynchon-L 
><pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Hard covers and lack thereof
>Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:29:15 -0400
>
>i'm still wondering about the red stamp on AtD--it's like it's being hidden
>or something
>
>i can only guess that Turnstone is our Slothrop-like character in AtD
>
>p.s. i don't like hardbacks b/c most reading done commuting--M&D was pain
>the ass to read on the subway. like the smell of paperbacks..hehe
>rich
>
>
>On 9/8/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>In case you haven't noticed, everything gets smaller
>>as we get older ;)
>>
>>I'll send you a magnifying glass if it will help you
>>with the Proust.  It's a beautiful set of books and
>>represents some amazing scholarship. I hae the Proust
>>biography, by Jean-Yves Tadie, editor of the Pleiade
>>edition, in a nice big trade paperback with a font of
>>generous proportions.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:46 PM, pynchonoid wrote:
>> >
>> > > The French can make nice books, but I wonder if
>> > the
>> > > market for hard-bound books is restricted to a
>> > > smaller, book fancier/collector market segment. A
>> > > Parisian friend's father had books bound in
>> > leather
>> > > for his  library.  I've got Proust, Rabelais, and
>> > some
>> > > other authors in the Bibliotechque de la Pleiade
>> > > edition, expensive but well-made books always are,
>> > in
>> > > my experience.
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes the French make nice books, nice looking anyway,
>> > but why did they
>> > have to squeeze the Pleiade Proust (including the
>> > novel and all the
>> > collateral materials) into four midget-sized volumes
>> > in tiny print on
>> > onion-skin-thin paper. Much too hard to read even if
>> > your French is
>> > good. Mine is  exceedingly minimal but I couldn't
>> > resist owning the
>> > definitive edition.
>> > >
>>
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