Bleeding Edge - audio

Tue Aug 20 00:57:04 CDT 2013

I have enough to keep busy with just working to get and keep myself up to
my standards.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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