Bleeding Edge - audio

[John Bailey]

I'll admit I was worried after IV, which had its charms but seemed
mostly nostalgic, backwards-looking, goofy... even now when I look at
random pages my usual thought is 'why is this in here?'


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Now if it was my neurosurgeon's work that was involved, well, then I might
> be worried if it sucked or not.
> Rich
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> ________________________________
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com>
> Cc: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>;
> P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 9:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge - audio
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> My heart goes out to all who worry that someone else's work might disappoint
> them.
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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Please don't worry there David. It's not that important.
> Rich
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> ________________________________
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge - audio
>
> OK.  U R a Fan.
> I'm more worried that it's gunna suck.
> Fan -attics, zealots, and deeper divers don't do so, because they'd lose
> membership.
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> We will see.
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> DM
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> On Monday, August 19, 2013, Bekah wrote:
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> Bleeding Edge will also be available from Audible.com (MP3) on the 17th.
> Narrated by Jeannie Berlin.   I might get both the book and the audio (if
> the narrator's voice sounds okay in the sample).   Shoot,  I might get the
> paperback (later)  as well to go with my collection -
>
> Bleeding Edge
>         • UNABRIDGED
>         • by Thomas Pynchon
>         • Narrated by Jeannie Berlin
> This title is scheduled to be released on 09-17-13
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>         • PUBLISHER
> Penguin Audio
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>
> Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the Internet.
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>  It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the
> dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th.   Silicon Alley is a
> ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO,
> Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as
> much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's
> no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.
>
> Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the
> Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists.
> She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back,
> which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow
> her own code of ethics - carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack
> into people's bank accounts - without having too much guilt about any of it.
> Otherwise, just your average working mom - two boys in elementary school, an
> off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal
> as it ever gets in the neighborhood - till Maxine starts looking into the
> finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO,
> whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown.
> She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat,
> a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer
> with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers,
> hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up
> mysteriously dead.  Foul play, of course.
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> With occasional excursions into the Deep Web and out to Long Island, Thomas
> Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance
> of New York in the early days of the Internet, not that distant in calendar
> time but galactically remote from where we've journeyed to since.
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> Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice?   Will
> Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse?   Will she and Horst get
> back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance?
> Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?
> Hey. Who wants to know?
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> ©2013 Thomas Pynchon (P)2013 Penguin Audio
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> http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=wl_1_1?asin=B00ELMWOFM
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