Group Read: BLEEDING EDGE: The Cutting Edge

[John Bailey]

Give everyone a solo read first - absolutely necessary imo. Nothing
like the pleasure of quietly forming your own response to a novel,
letting it settle, then joining the party where everyone has wildly
divergent views on it.

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, fwiw, I agree with David's approach, but due to circumstances, it
> looks like I'll have to save the discussions either way and read them when I
> get to read the book.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Others?
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2013, at 7:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I won't join nor read any group read that starts before 10/17, for reasons
>> stated.  A first read should be solo, IMHO.
>>
>> On Friday, September 13, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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