IVIV: audio version

[Victor Lazzarini]

It would be interesting to see if the out-of-order reading sort of  
emphasizes other characters like in Hopscotch (well there we actually  
have a completely new character...)
Victor
On 18 Nov 2009, at 18:10, Mark Kohut wrote:

> IV = Hopscotch Redux.
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> --- On Wed, 11/18/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>  
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>> 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.
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>> Maybe it's worth reading that way?  Then people,
>> places and atmosphere would take precedence over the weak
>> plot.
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