Super sad book trailers

[Keith Davis]

Funny, he almost sounds like Tommy Chong.

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> Pynchon's voice
>
> [...]
>
> Thomas Pynchon's video for "Inherent Vice" (garnering more than
> 126,000 views) perhaps best captures the imagination because Pynchon
> himself reads from the opening passage of the book.
>
> "If you're driving south from L.A. International, you should take no
> more than a hit or two off of your favorite brand of cigarette before
> you're right here in Gordita Beach, Calif.," he says in voiceover,
> accompanied by the sounds of jangly garage rock and grainy footage of
> SoCal streets and landscapes. "Later on, this is all going to go
> high-rise, high-rent, high-intensity. But right now, back in 1970,
> what it is is just high."
>
> Pynchon gives enough of a taste to get you hooked before ending with a
> verbal shrug of the shoulders: "Maybe you just want to read the book,"
> and then expresses mock disgust at the price. "$27.95, really? That
> used to be, like, three weeks of groceries, man."
>
> "It works because it happens to have one of our greatest living
> geniuses — and one of the most reclusive men of letters of all time —
> doing a voiceover," Mendelsund said. "To me, that was the thing. You
> could have shot anything and had Pynchon do the voiceover and it would
> have been interesting. I can't tell you how many times in my mind I've
> thought, 'What does this man's voice sound like?' The fact that he's
> involved in any way gives it an imprimatur that you could never have
> in any other way. You could take still photos of your cat, and (if)
> Thomas Pynchon is narrating, trust me, it would be really
> interesting."
>
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/ct-prj-0708-book-trailers-20120706,0,1322205.story?page=2
>



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