Against the Day Read-ux?

John Bailey sundayjb at gmail.com
Mon May 10 19:54:51 CDT 2010


Those involved would be reading the books.

In practice it wouldn't be much different, but there'd be a whole lot
more posting. I don't know if that's what people want jamming up their
inboxes, of course.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> How would the Total Pynchon Read (TPR) be any different from the
> usual, ongoing No Group Pynchon Read (NGPR)?
>
> AsB4,
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> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ian Livingston <Ian.Livingston at usd.edu> wrote:
>> Hey, I like that idea. A nonlinear, spatially challenging approach
>> highlighting apparently arbitrary relationships to a writer who
>> frequently uses that sort of thing in his novels. Could prove very
>> interesting, indeed. I'm ready to re-read V. again myself giving it a
>> closer than usual read.
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There have been several, all pretty fertile. I got a lot from each,
>>> but then V. is still the TP novel of which I'm most fond (not my
>>> favourite, not what I consider the best, not the most challenging,
>>> etc).
>>>
>>> Group reads have been a tough slog in recent years though - searching
>>> the archives isn't much easier. The internet got all busy and
>>> distracting and stuff.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should do a Total Pynchon Read: over a month or two everyone
>>> who cares to re-reads whatever novel they want and posts comments and
>>> queries as they go. A kind of trans-chronological survey of a great
>>> writer. No hosts, no schedules, just a lot of resonant frequencies
>>> echoing around the interwebs and perhaps casting a new light on half a
>>> century of fine thinking.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:28:29 -0700
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: keith woodward <woodwaka@[omitted]>
>>>>
>>>> 1:   September 21  Meg Larson
>>>> 2:   October 5        Richard Romeo
>>>> 3:   October 19      Burhan Tufail
>>>> 4:   November 2     Eponine308
>>>> 5:   November 16   Doug Millison
>>>> 6:   November 30   Peter Petto
>>>> HOLIDAY HIATUS  December 14 - January 3
>>>> 7:   January 4        Keith Woodward
>>>> 8:   January 18      Jeremy R.
>>>> 9:   February 1      The Mascaro Snake
>>>> 10: February 15     Chris K.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> How about V?  Did we ever do a group read of V, the TP book that I found the most challenging to read on my own?
>>>>
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>> --
>> "liber enim librum aperit."
>>
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