Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like chum....

[Tom Beshear]

I dunno -- the Eschaton match is fun -- certainly one of the funniest set 
pieces I've ever found in a novel.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like 
chum....


> what IJ does have - I'd go on at greater length about the lack of fun
> if Mr Wallace was alive to kick around - is sympathetic characters.  I
> quickly twigged that nothing very fun was going to happen, but the big
> lug recovering from addiction and the young twerp screwing up his
> great chances at the academy were both plenty simpatico and I couldn't
> abandon them...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IJ is interesting, but after a couple hundred pages, I realized that I
>> wasn't willing to make the time commitment required. That hasn't stopped 
>> me
>> from any of Pynchon or TR, or other "large" books, so maybe there's more 
>> to
>> it than time...