IV Group Read

Clément Lévy clemlevy at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 06:07:43 CDT 2009


Howdy podners,
My on-line order was delayed, and I still haven't got Inherent Vice.  
I'm eagerly looking forward to reading it at last, and I'd appreciate  
if you let me a couple weeks before we start the group reading.
Thanks!
Clément

Le 15 août 09 à 11:38, Carvill John a écrit :

>
>> John C., were you serious about starting it?
> Don't think I said I would start it, did I? I think I said I'd like  
> to see it start as soon as possible, but that was just selfishness,  
> I'm equally happy to wait for anyone and everyone.
>
> I don't think I would take a hosting slot. The last couple of Group  
> Reads I participated in here were not edifying experiences. I tried  
> to get a group read of GR going a few years back, and the results  
> could not have been worse unless, I dunno, an actual fatality had  
> occurred. I hosted a segment of the ATDTDA (aka 'Touching the Dog's  
> Arse'), and was lucky enough to get one of the best and most  
> obviously significant passages of teh book to annotate, and I put  
> quite a lot of work into my posts, and it triggered virtually no  
> discussion at all, and I ended up feeling it had been a total waste  
> of time. Which it had.
>
> Don't want to be negative - and I hope I'm not, I recently sent a  
> post bigging up the p-list in general. And I'm looking forward to  
> the IV GR, and will eagerly participate, but I don't want to be  
> *that* involved.
>
>
>
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