This week in pointless trivia.

[Fiona Shnapple]

I get where you are coming from. My expectations were that P would write
another IV but set in NYC, in and aroud the life he has been living these
past couple of decades, inclduing the dotcom and 9-11 days. I was not
expecting an AGTD tome, one that I carry around and dive deep into, one
with beautiful prose that makes me re-read and then re-read, one that
confused, astounded, moved me to think, wow, this Pynchon guy is a fucking
brillian artist. But to me, it is not a bad book but a good one. I love it,
as I said because I love the humor and the characters, expecially Maxine
and her family. It is the work of a great artist, but it is not AGTD. No,
of course not.

Been reading Pale King, and it is worth the time, worth carrying about,
digging into, standing back from with wonder.

There are lots of better books to read, and time is short, so, move on to
something else, is my advice.

I can list 25 books published this year alone that can get a reader into
deep water and wonder. If you are interested.
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Although there were many frustrations to reading ATD, I frequently made
> excuses to carve out time to read it: many times, for instance, Instead of
> driving to work, i drove to a train station, parked my car, and took a
> train to work just so I could go on reading. I took the book with me when I
> went to collect a takeaway curry, so I could read during the couple of
> minutes' waiting time,etc. with BE, I am finding excuses not to read it. I
> still haven't finished but I'm reasonably confident now that my assessment
> will not radically shift: this is by far Pynchon's least impressive work.
> I'll go further: this is a bad book.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> From: markekohut at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: This week in pointless trivia.
> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 19:45:56 -0400
> To: kelber at mindspring.com; johncarvill at hotmail.com
>
> Well, that's that, et tu, John?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 5, 2013, at 4:34 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> One argument that cannot be made successfully: that those of us who didn't
> enjoy the book, actually did enjoy it. I forced myself to finish the book,
> and no hints at deeper meanings, clever puns or pop references can change
> that fact.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carvill John
> Sent: Oct 5, 2013 3:42 PM
> To: Fiona Shnapple , "pynchon-l at waste.org"
> Subject: RE: This week in pointless trivia.
>
> Ok, for a skeptic, defend BE. What would your argument(s) be, were I to
> claim that BE was utter drivel...?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 13:03:01 -0400
> Subject: Re: This week in pointless trivia.
> From: fionashnapple at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
>
> I love BE.
>
> It's soooo, like Absolutely, not Positively  4th Street.
>
> What a drag it is getting old, but mostly, you know, well you don't,  but
> if you could, you'd know what a drag it is to see me.
>
> Keep on Truckin, Tom.
>
> This ain't no Kansas no more, but I got a feeling I been here
> before..won't you let me help you
>
> Your Gold Teeth, One and Two, are making them shutter
>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
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