Bleeding Edge - audio

[Lemuel Underwing]

I think it's safe to say that Pynchon is probably never going to surpass
M&D or AtD at his age, that said; so what? I can't wait for the new book, I
will read it and love it cause it's still told by that same ol' Voice that
so enamored me in both V. and IV.

I think we're in for a treat.


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:48 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > ________________________________
> > 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
> >
> > Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge - audio
> >
> > My heart goes out to all who worry that someone else's work might
> disappoint
> > them.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please don't worry there David. It's not that important.
> > Rich
> >
> > ________________________________
> > 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.
> >
> > We will see.
> >
> > DM
> >
> >
> > On Monday, August 19, 2013, Bekah wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >         • PUBLISHER
> > Penguin Audio
> >
> >
> > Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the Internet.
> >
> >  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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > ©2013 Thomas Pynchon (P)2013 Penguin Audio
> >
> > http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=wl_1_1?asin=B00ELMWOFM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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