What next?

[Doc Sportello]

On a desert island indefinitely. No one around. If I can cheat here;
choosing anthology over a single author. Penthouse forum and Proust
On Feb 26, 2014 9:24 AM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm Aristotelian enough to say from the origins (of his writing)
> on....things get revealed later with resonances, allusions, historical
> development...
> (I won't confess whether I followed my own advice.)....
>
> I will say that M & D was the hardest of them all for me to read....those
> CAPS, those wanderings, the whole nine yards...
> Didn't grasp it....until.....
>
> Yes, to Morris and others....GR over and over....(one long-time rare plist
> participant these days, said he had read GR ten times and I felt like a
> piker.....
>
> THAT book (and ATD at least) should maybe be read like the Janeites read
> Jane A....finish and restart.....in fact...
> Pynchon's oeuvre should perhaps be best tackled that way if one is
> "serious"....the endless story....
>
> Hey, let's all answer the writers on a desert island to read if you were
> stuck for the rest of your days....I used to answer Shakespeare and
> Chekhov......first for the full range of human experience and expression in
> mostly over-sized characters.....and the other for all the subtleties of
> the quotidian working/living life.....
>
> Have to add Pynchon now, of course....
>
>
>
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>   On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:34 AM, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net>
> wrote:
>   Most people will say GR. I'll put in a word for M&D as the most joyous
> of his work. It was my first Pynchon novel and it has always stayed with
> me. Joy is present from the GR allusion in the first sentence ("Snow-Balls
> have flown their Arcs...") to the last ("We'll fish there. And you too.")
> But GR, yes, you must read GR -- the mountain must be climbed, more than
> once.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:12 AM
> *Subject:* What next?
>
>  My first Pynchon was when I read ATD 4-5 years ago and liked it. Read
> Inherent Vice when it came out a couple years ago and liked it. Just
> finished Bleeding Edge and LOVED it. I don't know what the consensus is on
> his latest but it's my fav of the three.
>
> I'm interested in reading it all now since I hear These last three are
> ostensibly different than his earlier stuff. I'd like to save Gravity's
> Rainbow for last since I hear it's the best. Given all that, what do you
> guys recommend I read next?
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