What next?

[Doc Sportello]

You all are making me pretty excited to read it now and as if by providence
I've just learned I have the day off tomorrow so I'll be making a crack at
it. I would start tonight but it just so happens to be an extra special
sabbath (comic book day) un/fortunately: Miracleman, Brother Lono, and The
Wake.


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I didn't even get what Paul got....just felt
> The brilliance.... Lost in some lines.., scenes....could not even follow.
>   And don't get much deep stuff cause I was sure I wasn't...
> Yes, then came the ponies....
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 26, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First time reading GR. mostly what I got from it was the pitch perfect
> sound of WWII, which, rather unexpectedly, I had missed without realizing
> it.  And he had had to do it mostly from research, being just a kid while
> it was all going on. A kid with a very observant ear, possibly.  I can't
> put it too strongly, how stunned I was over the brilliance. Most of the
> "deep" stuff I didn't get. Had to wait for Weisenberger's marvelous little
> handbook to come out some years latter.
>
> P
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Only Alice and I are ever "wrong".  Pn different things...Everyone else
>> is always right.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2014, at 4:27 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> GR ain't a book you get right, so, go for it and keep us in mind, send us
>> some questions, ideas, whatever. The crew is here now doesn't talk much
>> Pynchon, but GR always gets them erect. So go for it. It's a magical book.
>> Worth it.
>>
>>
>> Not sure if you mean I'm to be the carnival geek here but I'll gladly
>>> update you guys regardless. I'll post the pages read and maybe a brief
>>> summary/reaction and you guys can laugh and tell me how wrong I am
>>>  On Feb 26, 2014 11:10 AM, "alice malice" <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why not give GR a go. I bet you can't finish it. Take the bet. Keep us
>>>> informed of your reading. That would be fun for all of us.
>>>> Mmmm...ahhhhh.....what should we wager?
>>>>
>>>>   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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