Against the Day Read-ux?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It would probably amount to back-and-forths between people reading the same book.  I guess we could declare June 1st, say, as Start Reading a Pynchon Book Day, and have everyone commit to a weekly posting on whichever book they've chosen.  Some might get multiple readers/posters, others none.  Sounds a little chaotic though.  Not sure if it would work.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 10, 2010 8:54 PM
>To: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
>Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Against the Day Read-ux?
>
>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,
>>
>> Henry Mu
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "liber enim librum aperit."
>>>
>>