Fw: Group Read: BLEEDING EDGE: The Cutting Edge

[David Morris]

I propose Monday, October 21.

On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Joe Allonby wrote:

> When do we start?
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:29 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I for one (two, three easy as Do, Re, Mi) can't wait to see what Alice
> > makes of BE. She lived there once, and might guide us down the rabbit
> > hole.
> >
> > SPOILER tag for one month sounds good, though.
> >
> > And I'm thinking we might need some kind of mega
> > YouTube/Spotify/iTunes/steam/whatever linklist. I spent ages sourcing
> > a bunch of hard-to-find songs after reading IV, but that now seems
> > easy given what's in BE. It's like Inception. You need to go deeper.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> I say YES to SPOILER tag (as I let certain speed readers of Inherent
> Vice
> >> fill up some of my supposed mind)
> >>
> >> From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
> >> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 9:54 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Group Read: BLEEDING EDGE: The Cutting Edge
> >>
> >> Agree with David and the gang above (except possibly Alice (?); what's
> up
> >> dude.): a month to read and let one's own opinions settle before diving
> into
> >> a designated list discussion.
> >>
> >> And I also want to propose the use of a [SPOILER] tag for threads about
> BE,
> >> for the month following release.
> >>
> >> P.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 14 September 2013 22:32, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm with David and Ian.  Not only have I and we always had the
> opportunity
> >> for individual reads before group ones, but I will be visiting Iceland
> 21-15
> >> October, and will therefor not be available to... spar in Iceland.
> >> (Apparently they call it Silverberg in Iceland, I want me a piece!)
> >>
> >>
> >> Yours truly,
> >> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> >> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> >> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:31 PM, 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:
> >>
>
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