OMG! Ya Know?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Oct 15 13:41:07 CDT 2013


Oddly enough, no. I felt weirdly vindicated. I only just realized how  
much I got that one wrong. Makes me love it all the more, playing with  
everybody's confirmation biases with chaotic effect. English Profs in  
Berkeley hated, hated, hated it, wonder why?

Cheated but beguiled is how I felt after my first reading of CoL49,  
somewhat less beguiled [still] of V.  I didn't feel cheated after GR  
but I was left feeling "WTF" for months afterward. I had a total  
breakdown mid-way through M & D. Cause? Effect? Beats the hell out of  
me. Glorious Bodice-Ripping Doorstopper that one is. Against the Day  
was the most fun, Inherent Vice was not. I tried to remember reading  
something that left me with the weird, unresolved feeling my first  
pass through BE left me. "White Noise" came to mind. Returning to page  
one, digging under the surface revealed a whole city underground. I  
really don't know where the group read will lead but I wanna find out.

On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Remember how y'all felt after (in particular/off the top of my head)
> Vineland?  "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" (J, Lydon)
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