ATDTDA fizzling out?

[David Morris]

Yeah, I've been reading slower than usual also, mostly because my
daily reading time is about an hour sitting on the front stoop with my
pugs, now all four of them.  The oldest one is very restless, keeps
begging me to feed him more ice out of the cup I've brought out
expressly for him.  Besides him the older female is content to lounge
on my lap while I also contend with the two new puppies, 5 months and
9 months old females, who keep each other pretty well entertained. And
all this action is on my double shotgun's brick stoop (stoop, not
porch) no bigger than 3ft by 4 ft.   And then there's the occasional
acquaintance who I have to stop reading to say hi to (and hope they
don't decide to hang out with me too long).  All this makes for very
slow reading but a very enjoyable time.

Shotgun House:
http://bywater.org/Arch/shotgun.htm

I also say let's keep going, but maybe Tore is right that we could
speed it up to one week each section.

Update:  While typing this post Robin's post just arrived (Gmail is so
cool), and he assures us, having now embarked on his 3rd reading, that
"There is so much in this book that does not, will not reveal itself,
in a surface reading, the level of misdirection throughout the book is
greater than in anything else the man has written" and "it's at least
as dense as GR."  So, my having greatly enjoyed many of Robin's (and
Tore's, and Monte's and...) very insightful posts pointing out AtD's
themes relating them to all the other Pynchon novels, I will take your
word for it and give it my best shot, and try not to jump to
judgement.

Thanks,
David Morris



On 3/30/07, Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Like Dave (I think), I'm only up to page 500 of the book.  I'm moving very slowly by my standards, partly because I'm also reading all of these e-mail, and partly because the book is too big for my commute.  So I'm enjoying reading what all of y'all are saying, but it's difficult for me to contribute meaningfully until I finish the thing and work my way back around to you.  This will happen any day now, I'm sure.  I would be sad if y'all stopped.