Group Read: BLEEDING EDGE: The Cutting Edge

[Steve Maas]

I see no good reason to wait a month. The last time I was active on the P-List, which was when M&D came out, some of the academics wanted to wait to give them and their compadres a chance to sink their teeth into it first but the P-List went ahead and posted their own thoughts. If the official group reading is a month after release I have no doubt that many of the members here will post their thoughts prior to then (with Spoiler notices, of course).
Steve Maas
 
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:22:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Fw: Group Read: BLEEDING EDGE: The Cutting Edge
From: fqmorris at gmail.com
To: joeallonby at gmail.com
CC: sundayjb at gmail.com; markekohut at yahoo.com; siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org

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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