This week in pointless trivia.

[David Robsom]

John - How far along are you, exactly? I will say that for me the book didn't really pick up until the last 10 or 11 chapters. 


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> On Oct 6, 2013, at 4:34, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 
> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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