Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule

[Richard Ryan]

If a number of listers want to start the MoP read two weeks later that's certainly fine with me - Lawrence and Bekah would have to indicate whether that works for their schedule.  

MoP is 256 pages, so the 25 day schedule I proposed assumed 10 pages, or four relatively short chapters every five days.  If that seems too fast I can certainly add some time onto the schedule.



--- On Wed, 8/27/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 10:12 AM
> Yeah, I'd like to see this schedule postponed by at
> least TWO weeks.
> That will give me time to finish what I'm in the middle
> of right now.
> Less than one week's notice to start this kind of
> commitment is WAY
> too short.  I've just ordered the book, but it
> won't arrive that soon.
>  I say we start September 15 or 22.  Otherwise I'll
> just be watching
> from the sidelines.
> 
> Also, is the proposed pace too fast?  How many pages are
> each of these
> proposed segments?  These chapters must very short.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:47 AM, 
> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > The schedule seems fine, except I think we need a
> little breathing room after the ATD read.  We haven't
> really had a summing up about the book.  What, in the end,
> is it actually about, and what do people think about it? 
> Personally, I was thinking that we could all get into
> discussing that after Labor Day (the dividing line between
> summer and fall, for us Yanks, anyway).  So maybe the start
> of your schedule could be moved back a week?  I'd vote
> for that.