Reading styles

[jochen stremmel]

Two things, Mark: Firstly, Keith's reported comment by someone, "that
they all sucked", the books Pynchon wrote blurbs for. I certainly have
not read them all, like that someone obviously, but only the four by
Fariña, Piercy, Matthiessen, De Lillo and can say that Far Tortuga was
a wonderful experience and the other three were certainly very good,
not one that sucked, in my eyes. They didn't change my reading style,
perhaps my reading taste: Far Tortuga certainly widened it.

And after reading nearly everything an author living in Vienna wrote
(the one who started a book of about 400 pages about Hitler and the
nazis in 1933 with the sentence: "Mir faellt zu Hitler nichts ein",
roughly translated as: Nothing occurs to me about Hitler) no other
author was able to change my (German) writing style. My English has no
style to talk (or write home) about.

2012/11/7 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> I'll go further with Morris's ob by asking another of those plist questions
> that sometimes lead to terrif discussion. Do we think this is a good thing?
> A better way to read, as it were?
>
> I will reveal my bias and say YES. I argue it shows we feel the words, the
> writing, and not just "comprehend" it. so to speak. But I would, wouldn't I?
>
> What about a counter argument that shows we are not strong enough to resist
> a very high-level "kind of" advertising? (I said "kind of" just FYI but
> carry on)
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This sounds familiar. I've noticed this, too.
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Happens to me too....I feel like a have a new accent......boy did my
>> letters get full of Proustian- length sentences when I read him....a kind of
>> progressive unwinding ---SEE what Pynchon can now do!
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:27 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I've found myself beginning to think and write in a style similar to an
>> author's voice when reading a great book, and not intentionally.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:35 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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