does AtD rock?

[Bryan Snyder]

>a middle-aged, 
>unemployed
>pathetic failure
	Not Ya Sam... sorry for the mis-quote!

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Snyder [mailto:wilsonistrey at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:18 AM
To: 'pynchon-l at waste.org'
Subject: RE: does AtD rock?

As someone who sees becoming possibly:

>a middle-aged, 
>unemployed
>pathetic failure
	Ya Sam

Out of curiosity and sincerity, how did that work out for you?

I read GR first, then AtD came out... I shared the feeling that Ya Sam
described among many many other feelings about all sorts of things not
related to me nor literature as well.  I would like to read AtD again and
then follow it up with GR again but, as I just recently expressed to a
friend, the anticipation of rereading GR again is one of my great current
joys... I can't wait to do it and AtD will probably not come before.  I plan
on finishing up Vineland, then Mason and Dixon, then Slow Learner and I
guess hit up GR.

But I will keep an eye peeled for those sharing impressions from going AtD
to GR... 

B

PS - This too was well said:

>If simply becoming a Pynchon reader requires 
>such an effort (I had read Ulysses before and thought so high of myself), 
>then what does it take to write like Pynchon? I hope he didn't sell his
soul
>to the Devil.
	Ya Sam


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Henry
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:42 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: does AtD rock?

Could anyone, as of yet, had the time to first read AtD and then GR, and get
much out of them both?  I may not be a slow learner, but I guess that I must
be a slow reader.

Henry M 
http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Ya Sam
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:28 PM
To: kelber at mindspring.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: does AtD rock?

I hope everything's fine now, Bekah.

My first reading of GR not only blew my mind, but also showed how pathetic, 
ignorant and narrow-minded I was (maybe I'm still is, but Pynchon showed me 
some ways to improve myself). If simply becoming a Pynchon reader requires 
such an effort (I had read Ulysses before and thought so high of myself), 
then what does it take to write like Pynchon? I hope he didn't sell his soul

to the Devil.

BTW, there are folks around who first read AtD and then GR, so I think it 
would be interesting to learn about their opinion of GR after AtD and not 
the other way round. If I'm not mistaken, Mark is one of those.



>
>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
>

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