IV Blog Teaser

[John Bailey]

I agree with all of this.

To be honest I finished the book and wanted to start again straight
away. It's completely accessible - seemingly light and yes, even
throwaway - but I can't help feeling there's something much bigger
going on beneath the surface.

What's obviously - I think deliberately - different is the relative
lack of lush, meandering authorial intrusion. No "does Brittania, when
she sleeps, dream?"

Imagine COL49 without the possibilities of what's really going on (is
this a plot? paranoia? etc) being made explicit. I sense a massively
intricate structure to the novel that only P-fans will begin to
understand. THIS is the novel which begs a Magic Eye reading. I think
it's to do with that flatland reference... depth and flatness or
something, but I could be waaaaay off. Can't wait till everyone's
reading it.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:03 PM, tbeshear<tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Unlurking to say that I'm about 50 pages into it -- I've laughed out loud
> several times. So far, it's definitely the lightest thing he's written.
> Tibor Fischer was exactly right when it wrote that it reads like an Elmore
> Leonard novel. Perhaps it will deepen later, but so far I think it falls
> into Graham Greene's category of  "an entertainment." I could easily imagine
> it as a movie, perhaps directed by Tarantino, cuz these characters love to
> talk talk talk.
> That said, I've got over 300 pages to go, and who knows where it'll end up?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Landseadel"
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: IV Blog Teaser
>
>
>> Yosemite Sam likes it!
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I like it!
>>>
>>>> God! Cliches piled over the top!
>>>> Maybe it builds into something bigger than this pile.
>>>>
>>>> http://litlicense.blogspot.com/2009/07/thomas-pynchon-teaser.html
>>>>
>>>> rich
>>
>> I see you've never dealt with a Viking!
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