[Erik T. Burns]

I'd participate in a read of _The Recognitions_

On Feb 4, 2011, at 19:01, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:

> I would be happy to give AtD another chance if that were the next
> read.  Didn't really get any traction with it the first time I tried.
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> M&D is a glory and I would also happily participate in that.
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> Anyone have an interest in a group read of The Recognitions?
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hear, hear!...(that's the part I like too!)...There, there!...Here, Here!.....
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>> AtD is worth any number of Booker Man winners---and even better novels!
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>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> To: richard.romeo at gmail.com
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Sent: Fri, February 4, 2011 10:58:38 AM
>> Subject: RE:
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>> << ATD ... it's all that naive anarchist utopia romanticism that grates.
>>>> That's the bit I liked!Seriously, though, as we all know ATD contains
>> multitudes, and I'll take anarchist utopia romanticism over the sort of
>> mealy-mouthed crap peddled by Ian McEwan in 'Saturday', for instance. As Lou
>> Reed once sang, "This is no time for equivocation".I'll also tale teh firt 100
>> pages or so of ATD against anything by anybody for about the last 10 years. At
>> least.
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