Reddit to Group Read Gravity's Rainbow

[Antonin Scriabin]

I think I am going to just be careful which P-list threads I open until I
finish, to avoid spoilers.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Yup  -  I read Against the Day the Thanksgiving weekend it came out,  but
> the "official" group read was a couple months later (and I reread it!)  I
> think lots of folks did that or close.
>
> The only problem I see is the possibility of spoilers - the book is set
> for nearly 500 pages - this needs a couple days for some readers,  weeks
> for others.   I'd say an informal survey read the remaining month of
> September (with spoilers be damned - pretty much what you said, Antonin)
> and a ore careful reading going from  October through December (approx.  25
> pages per week -  but who knows where that would break… bleeding all over
> the place.)   This is what would likely happen anyway - (heh).
>
> Bekah
>
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I think we might have success with a Bleeding Edge group read since it
> will be current and new.  That said, I think the entire P-list will morph
> into a giant, 37-thread group read overnight anyways, which suffices!
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Lemuel Underwing <
> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let's just pretend like Reddit never happened. That's what I'm doing.
> It's been such a time-sink for me the past year these last three months
> being Reddit-Free have been Bliss. Like that one fellow said "Hell is other
> people".
> >
> > The List is enough for me, thanks.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:03 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > P-list group reads have been very fruitful, however erratic and
> stumbling. The few that dedicate themselves to participating make it
> rewarding. They always have limped to finish, loosing most participants
> along the way.  But we've always taken them at a snails pace, GR takes
> about a year @ P-list speed.  So it's no wonder they finish weak.
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, Bekah wrote:
> > How sad for you to have missed some excellent group reads here and other
> places.
> >
> > Bekah
> >
> > On May 21, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Prashant Kumar <
> siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't see the point of this. General tone seems to view G'sR as a
> badge, a pin, a commendation and a ticket to smugness for looking at words
> on a page...now in a group! Every group read I've been part of has either
> disintegrated or been rather more than a little pointless, usually
> eventually, sometimes at the outset. I'm betting the latter, here.
> > >
> > > P.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 22 May 2013 02:08, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Good one, Mark.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > LIKE....
> > > a progressive unknotting into and out of....
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > >
> > > On May 21, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Do you mean "what could go wrong that the P-list hasn't exemplified
> for
> > > > twenty years"..?
> > > >
> > > > Sure, that sounds demanding, but creativity knows no limits.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]
> On Behalf
> > > > Of Joe Allonby
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:44 AM
> > > > To: Mark Woollams
> > > > Cc: pynchon -l
> > > > Subject: Re: Reddit to Group Read Gravity's Rainbow
> > > >
> > > > What could go wrong?
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Mark Woollams <
> woollams812 at yahoo.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> http://www.reddit.com/r/bookclub/comments/1eqi9f/the_next_big_read_will_be_g
> > > > ravitys_rainbow_by/
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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