does AtD rock?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

My snivelling, self-pitying post was just an attempt to make the point that GR is as much appreciated by first time middle-aged readers as first-time young readers.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 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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