America, highly caffeinated: Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon

[Markekohut]

I'll fess up.....hardest damn one for me to read.....

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On Jun 20, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> " I found it pretty easy to read too: it’s dense and Pynchon used a
> pseudo-18th century kind of syntax, but it’s worth sticking with;
> after 50 or so pages I barely even noticed anymore."
> 
> I was waiting for him to get to this.  I had the same reaction the
> first time I read M&D. It didn't take long to get used to the language
> and after a while I stopped noticing it. But as a Pynchonhead, I knew
> what I was in for. This additional layer of literary whimsy might be
> off-putting for a reader new to the author whose reputation is already
> daubed with the difficult brush. I still recommend COL49.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Thanks. Lightweight -- but sweet, and refreshingly free of the "daunting
>> polymath brainiac TRP" meme, and all to the good if it draws new readers.
>> 
>> I'd still vote for CoL49 as "the best way to get into his works," but
>> perhaps that's only because that was the one that hooked me.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Of Dave Monroe
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>> Subject: America, highly caffeinated: Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon
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