Slothrop & Invisible Man (My Two Teeth) For what it's worth

[Emma Wrigley]

Every time I read a Roth I get intensely annoyed and yet I keep trying.
Until I read Indignation a few months back at which point I reached the
point of no return. Thank goodness. I was going to suggest some VN, but
probably Pale Fire particularly, being unaware that it had been the
subject of a GR before. 
Interesting point on Ellison and Pynchon. I'm none the wiser at the
moment, but it's definitely worth a look. 

Em
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: alice wellintown [alicewellintown at gmail.com]
>Sent: 15/5/2010 10:44:03 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Slothrop & Invisible Man (My Two Teeth) For what it's
worth
>
>Are there any critical essays on these two? Some pretty fart smeller
>posted on the two paint factories (obviously this posted thought that
>Pynchon raped Ellison's masterwork, not only for the Paint Factory
>stuff, but for the major motif--Invisibility as well as the race
>themes), but have real scholars published on Ellison and Pynchon?
>
>Henry Adams is the kind of book I like to read again and again. The
>first time I read it, and this was my experience with so much that I
>read as a young lass, I didn't know that Adams is quite a funny guy.
>Now that I have to teach him, I find him too hard for young people and
>too depressing for anyone over 30.
>
>The only Chandler I think worth of a group read is The Visible Hand
>(required reading for AGTD).
>
>Won't bother with Augie or any other Jewish novel (P. Roth makes me
>sick, although I did enjoy that Dying Animal...cause I', a hot Cuban
>bitch) other than the only trrue masterpiece, Henry Roth's Call it
>Sleep.
>
>How a bout a Toni Morrison book, like Song of Solomon?
>
>How about Ardor or Ada by VN ( so enjoyed that Pale Fire read...would
>go back and do it again)
>
>My two teeth . . . .
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMOjv-VVxAY&feature=related
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3BjjpZedl8&feature=related
>.
> 
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