Pynchon List Group Reads of non-Pynchon Books

[Mark Kohut]

I've voted too often here....couple-three semi-last remarks:

IF we won't get enuff to say they will JUMP IN HARD for ATD, then I think we should wait on it and do another one, even though it might always be my first choice.  Here's a planning thought: after this next one, we do do AtD......planning to end it on its FIFTH anniversary, November 2011!...What say? Do it so thoroughly we'll all be spent fulfillingly. 

Robin's terrif "it tied the room together" remark makes me want to second the short reading of Farewell, My Lovely. So I do----but the ironic thing
is that Robin already made me read this by force of enthusiasim as I waited for Inherent Vice....and other Chandler. 

Who, I reconfess, I had never read. But I would read this one again, slow food style, for the group read. 

But I have always wanted to read Mumbo Jumbo and haven't.

And Saramago would be fun and enlightening, I think. Only know one. 

Yet it was another time, another place when I read Augie March and maybe NOW I would feel it.........better. (I did like/feeel it..it is also a young man's book in simple identification)....And I want to jump on John's words about an annotation and say, Why don't we read it and semi-annotate it?.....read it
on the plist, of course, but also do a consensus/disputed reading in something like Google docs or Yahoo Notepads---or hotmail must have an equivalent....list pages and ..........our reading(s)?.........[I say this 'cause I do not know how to do a wiki--or would expect anyone here to take the time 
and effort----Tim Ware's work and commitment on the pynchon wiki is some kind of secular saintliness.]  

And, answering Joe's question of us, if we read V.---or maybe whatever we read,--- I do think we can enhance the experience in ways he suggested or other
ways.....(see annotation above. For V. it goes beyond the good wiki...into min-essays on themes. etc....) And this does not have to be a pynchon-damned
either-or .....we post to the plist as forever....AND we add something.......

So, soon we vote or forever keep on keeping on the way we have? 



 


----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 1:58:50 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon List Group Reads of non-Pynchon Books

On May 12, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Charles Albert wrote:

> Many of the recommendations fail to consider the short half life of near every group read in the past 10 years. At 200 odd pages, Farewell My Lovely offers plenty of fodder without the heavy lifting. For the argot alone, this is a very worthwhile endeavor. The book is loaded with allusions to real characters and events which should stimulate the detailists among us...
> 
> 
> And it certainly does enhance one's reading of Pynchon.
> 
> love,
> cfa

    ". . . it tied the whole room together."