Reading styles

[Markekohut]

Here is another way of agreeing with this in which I use my narrow narcissism and liken it to 
this suggestion about TRPs blurbed books......There are many books I cannot read that people I respect say are worth it...

Yet, there are some which grab me that I somehow feel I might not have liked without my immersion in Pynchon. as so differently good. 

so, Pynchon immersed in his own vision, his own writing, sometimes is taken with books that
Carry him way out of his style so seem original (and sympatico w his vision).

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 6, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> An original thought, it seems to me.....TRP in depth did that to me.....there are so many good, decent books I CAN NOT read anymore, just in keeping....
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Something occurred to me as a result of a discussion off-list, and connecting with a previous discussion about the "Pynchon blurb list". I'm reading something that presents certain difficulties, and I'm enjoying it, and part of the reason is that it's making me change my reading style, the same thing that happened when I first read Mr. P and other writers that I've come to love and respect. 
>> 
>> I made a comment about reading some of the books that our esteemed Mr. P had written blurbs for and someone commented that they all sucked, which I found both amusing and interesting (if there's a difference). Now, with the current discussion, I'm wondering if our fearless leader blurbed some of those books because they gave him that same experience, of causing him to have to read in a different way, possibly expanding the possibilities, feeding his curiosity and sense of literary adventurousness. Just a possibly random thought.
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