does AtD rock?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I only got around to reading GR a few years ago, when I was a middle-aged, unemployed 
pathetic failure with no illusions about anything.  Yes, it totally rocked, blew my mind, etc.
ATD is good to read if you love Pynchon, but it's not the life-altering experience that GR was.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 10, 2007 12:26 PM
>To: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: does AtD rock?
>
>I think so.  first couple attempts at GR were fruitless but reading lot 49
>and then V. made the next assault on GR's summit that much easier. and after
>reading GR, readings of what followed were/are even easier.
>
>Rich
>
>
>On 7/10/07, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> GR had the advantage of being there first, and having its initial way with
>> us when we were younger.  I still prefer "Naked Lunch" to Burrough's later
>> works.  Is it really that much better, or am I different, in part from
>> reading that first mind-blower?
>>
>> Henry M
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:38 AM
>> To: Henry
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: does AtD rock?
>>
>> I might not be as easily rocked now versus then either.  But GR still
>> rocks me, and ATD not as much.
>>
>> On 7/10/07, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's also difficult to completely remove who I am, e.g. a more
>> > experienced/mature Pynchon reader, from my life in general, let alone
>> from
>> > my reading of ATD, and particularly from my initial reading of it.  This
>> is
>> > "the author's fault," though "not entirely." It takes a little more rock
>> > to rock me than it used to; not jaded, just not as easily tilted.
>>
>>