[Michael Bailey]

 Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
>
> Not really.

as I recall, you've stated before that you'd prefer not to do "reads"
at all, and enjoy the intermissions between reads the most.

I respect that point of view, and compromise to some extent by
frequent off-topic posts during reads...

but there is something about going through a book together that is
kind of fun for me and I'd miss it if we never did.


other ideas for a next read:

Clementine's Recognitions

Thousand Plateaus

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Atlas Shrugged

Man Without Characteristics (I've wanted to read this for years!)

John Crowley's Aegypt tetralogy

Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me



other ideas besides doing a read:

take turns contributing "slash" fiction in the Pynchon universe (Oh
Benny, breathed Oedipa, you're such a mystery to me.  Can I touch your
post-horn?)

flame contests

true (with any percentage of fictitious) confessions as if we were
seated across from Stencil in the Rusty Spoon

make a list of works mentioned in P's books and each inspired person
do a review in any style for the delectation of the group (no
discussion)

likewise treat the blurbed works

just post on whatever comes to mind and see whether anyone can link it
to a theme, image, pun, song or sex scene in a Pynchon work

online collaborative formation - bylaws, international charter, and
all other necessary arrangements - of a multinational corporation

devote a month at a time during which all posts must be in traditional
verse forms - sestinas, sonnets, haiku...