V-2: Re: BDSL, 1- Genetic Therapy for Inherent Vice

[Mark Kohut]

John C. writes:
Well, there's a *lot* of great stuff in there. But 'V.' is a terrifically hard 
book to get into, at least it was for me, initially. I really had to force 
myself through it, first time round. I would never, under any circumstances, 
recommend it to anyone as their first Pynchon.

I second this and I second some of Robin's dissing.....and alice's. 

I stopped out of V., fully lost anyway...my first youthful reading.........as 
some are speaking of that BDSL scene,
I stopped out of V. at the upcoming Pig Bodine scene.....unable, too young, to 
even begin to get that The Whole Sick Crew
might be 'sick'......[I thought they were supposed to be the cool hip types and 
since I never was, I tried to identify until I
could no longer bridge the fantasy gap).

V., this first reading, was just scenes and chapters----Esther, 
Alligator-hunting in sewers----that seemed to be satirizing something
I did not understand ...............................and Stencil?...fuggetaboutit

Plea: 
Robin, don't go away.......we need whatever you post........maybe ESPecially if 
itinvolves criticism of the book.............P himself dissed it
TOTALLY................so, you must be reading it right and alice and I (and 
some others) often wrong in tacit praise...........(I have found
more fault with it than any others of his)