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

[Erik T. Burns]

Wallace is no Franzen.

a-and that's a compliment!

I adored Infinite Jest; it was too long, yes, for a book. But fine for
a bible. Or for carving out and hiding a schnapps bottle in.

I am too old for it to be part of my "zeigeist" (though not old enough
for TRP or WG to be!)

I bought The Pale King but am worried the editorial hand will be
overly Kinbotic, given the circs.

That can be fun, of course (Kinbote is fun!) but only if the people
aren't really real.



On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
>