IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement

[Bekah]

Imo,  the little snips we generic members have been allowed to read,   
scan just fine.  They're light and breezy,  everything you said,   
John.   This is more scannable than GR because GR was so dense it  
didn't scan - it was almost word for word reading  for me (brilliant  
though it was).

I love to laugh in books.  I make little marks like LOL where I  
laugh.  I'm looking forward to this a lot,  but not too much because  
I've found that when I hype a book too much,  even just for myself,   
I'm always a bit disappointed.   So I look forward with some caution  
because I don't know until I know.  (very true).

Bekah
ready to download onto the Kindle the moment its released (I'll be on  
vacation again)
then maybe buy a hard copy to go on the shelf


On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:19 AM, Carvill, John wrote:

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> Yikes!
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>> DMorris:
>> God! Cliches piled over the top!
>> Maybe it builds into something bigger than this pile.
>
>> Kai:
>> Maybe not. All three samples given so far were lame.
>>
>> It's like in AtD, the long sentences they just don't scan anymore,
> they simply fall off
>> the table ...
>> Did Pynchon lose his rhythm? And if "something bigger" than clusters
> of cliches -- what? A whale?
>
> Don't want to start another argument, but... This is kinda irksome
> stuff, here, guys. There's nothing wrong with any of the excerpts
> which've been circulated so far. Except, of course, that they're not
> from GR. I really like the 'fro pick paragraph, and the one with the
> jittering paisley VW buses seems to scan just fine to me. It has that
> Pynchon rhythm, a poetic feel to it, and it imparts the appropriate
> sense of atmosphere. And that's just that one paragraph, you have to
> consider it as a part of the whole, which we will only be able to  
> start
> doing on our second read of the book, at the earliest.
>
> Furthermore, it (arguably) counts as one of those great Pynchon
> 'begginning of a journey' riffs (a la GR's opening evacuation, or  
> Zoyd's
> trip up to the Log Jam) and, if you want to lean down really  
> heavily on
> the Pynchon symbolism, it ends with that ominous 'up North'...
>
> Kai, I know you acknowledged zippos, matchsticks, etc. But I think  
> it's
> unfair (on ourselves as readers) to judge IV on the evidence of these
> tiny wee snippets.
>
> I'll come clean now and admit that I was lucky enough to, er,  
> acquire an
> advacne copy of the book, and I don't want to give out any spoilers
> (though anyone who wants to can quiz me off-list) so I will say no  
> more,
> except to note that I absolutely loved it.
>
> Cheers
> JC
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