IVIV: audio version

[Mark Kohut]

IV = Hopscotch Redux.

--- On Wed, 11/18/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: IVIV:  audio version
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 10:15 AM
> My husband's only read V and COL49,
> but I suggested he try IV, since he lived in LA during the
> 70s.  He got the audio tape and said he liked the
> descriptions of people and places, but he thought the plot
> was weird and disjointed.  Oh well, that's Pynchon, he
> supposed.  After a while, it dawned on him:  his
> CD player was set to randomize the tracks - he'd listened to
> the story completely out of order.
> 
> Maybe it's worth reading that way?  Then people,
> places and atmosphere would take precedence over the weak
> plot.
>