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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