(Almost) NP

[Joe Allonby]

I frequently advise people to start with COL49. It's almost as if he wrote
it as a primer on how to read Pynchon. It seems to work.

On 5/8/08, Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:23 PM
> Subject: Re: (Almost) NP
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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> No, the big novels. So that when they dislike it, they are at least
> disliking something more authentically Pynchonian.
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> On 5/7/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Stories, then "V."?.....chronological order, ya think?
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>> *Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com>* wrote:
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>> People shouldn't start with L49. Or, actually, people should be told not
>> to start with L49.
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>> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> From a blogger with a boulder on his shoulder.........
>>> But what I have sent this around for is the title on his rant,
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>>> which could be applied, yes?, to some of Pynchon's sadomasochistic
>>> lovers?
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>>> *masochismo!
>>> *i decided to read *the crying of lot 49* by thomas pynchon, mostly
>>> because i always supected that he belongs to that generation of
>>> self-obsessed, mid-century, american, male authors that i love to hate*, who
>>> are in equal parts consumed with their own brilliance and the inalienable
>>> rightness of said brilliance. oh, and fearing and resenting women and people
>>> of colour, too.
>>>
>>> anyway, of this ilk having only read tom robbins (fantastic when i was an
>>> idiotic seventeen year-old hippie and abhorrent later), jack kerouac (ditto,
>>> though less so the latter), and ernest hemingway (author of *the old man
>>> and the sea*, a book i threw across the room in disgust no less than
>>> three times), i was hoping to be proven wrong with pynchon. i am sorry to
>>> report that i hated it, also.
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>>> i think i need to go get drunk and dance to madonna.
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