Fw: Group Read: BLEEDING EDGE: The Cutting Edge

[David Morris]

Two thoughts from me about a BE group read:

1. However many pages or chapters a week are deemed reasonable, I think one
group "segment" per week is best.  One "host" per week, covering a
specified number of pages, with all others able to supply their own agendas
on those pages as well.  More than one "segment" per week will quickly lose
the group read altogether.  People have lives, you know?

2. If BE is Pynchon-lite (no endless GR sentences), then 60 pages or so a
week might be reasonable.  But if there is real depth in BE, I think slower
is better.  I hope BE demands slower...

3.  The group read shouldn't start until at least a month after the
official release so the we can read it solo first, without a P-list
glancing over the shoulder.

David Morris

On Friday, September 13, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Natalie Portinari: "I'm in, Mark. I'm too excited to read this book to do
> it all alone. Does anyone else want to join?"
>
> Natalia and I invite you to join. A Group Read was/is one of the meanings
> of the plist, right?
>
> I have been able to learn of chapter and pagination breaks from someone
> who has an ARC.
>
> 41 short chapters. 479 pages. So, @12  pages per average chapter. I
> propose we sign up for
> hosting @2 chapters every two days??!! (equals one chapter a day for the
> busiest of us. And, doing ahead
> after 9/17 will be easy, right?).
>
> 6 chapters a week---want to take Saturday or Sunday off?--means @ 7 weeks
> to finish. Done by Halloween(!), that DeepWeb holiday!
> I will sign up for the first two. PLEASE JUMP ON BOARD, he says
> plaintively. (Otherwise I'll do it all to universal blocking, I'm sure.
> Or I won't) . As has been indicated, it is just another mystery, so easy
> to read, right?
>
> We will all still post about all of it, or other parts that strike us, I'm
> sure. (But the civility of SPOILER ALERT
> for most details might be worth a vote?)
>
> Old-fashioned: first page of Chap 1 is 1.   & I will probably comment on
> the epigraph to start, since, I do.
> Chap 1 1---7                           Mark K.
> Chap 2. 8--19                         Mark K.
> chap. 3. 20--29
> chap 4. 30--40
> Chap 5. 41--52
> chap. 6. 53--67
> Chap. 7. 68--79
> Chap 8. 80--86
> Chap. 9. 87--95
> Chap. 10. 96--111
> Chap. 11. 112--119
> Chap. 12. 120--131
> Chap. 13. 132--142
> Chap. 14. 143--157
> Chap 15. 158 --169
> Chap 16. 170--182
> Chap 17. 183-195
> Chap 18. 196-208
> Chap 19. 209-216
> Chap 20. 217-227
> Chap 21. 228- 236
> Chap 22. 237-244
> Chap 23. 245--253
> Chap 24. 254--262
> Chap 25. 263--272
> Chap 26. 273-286
> Chap 27. 287-299
> Chap 28. 300-312
> Chap 29. 313-325
> Chap 30. 326-336
> Chap 31. 337--346
> Chap 32. 347-353
> Chap 33. 354--365
> Chap 34. 366--383
> Chap 35. 384--395
> Chap 36. 396--409
> Chap 37. 410-- 424
> Chap 38. 425--440
> Chap 39. 441--449
> Chap 40. 450--464
> Chap 41. 465--479
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