Inherent Vice: Pink Fade

[Charles Albert]

Sign up for the Borders card.....they are positively promiscuous with the
discount coupons - and they rarely oblige you to actually print and present
them.....Got 20% off on my IV.

Am currently just short of half way through Bolano's Savage Detectives and
wondering if is worth continuing - or should I chuck it for IV...any
suggestions?

love,
cfa

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Got my copy of Inherent Vice at Borders today. Place looked like a rummage
> sale. There was no discount. The clerk told me :"I guess it's not an
> important book."
>
> The inside flaps for the cover are sprayed pink, the kind of pink fade you
> find on remaindered books. Not all of them, mind you. Not all publishers use
> that signifier on a book headed for the $5 bin, but enough. If you've ever
> worked or obsessively shopped at one of the big box book stores, you'll know
> what I talking about.
>
> I've always seriously wondered if Pynchon had it written into his contract
> that the first edition QP of Gravity's Rainbow be deliberately under-glued
> along the spine, thus guaranteeing that all copies of that edition would
> fall apart about two thirds the way in.
>
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