Brief AtD appreciation after listening to it

[Mark Thibodeau]

My first read of Inherent Vice was via audiobook. When I went back and
read it "analog" (does that work? Not really) I was astonished by a)
how much I remembered from my listen, and b) how good a job they
seemed to have done, in retrospect, with the audiobook.

I would recommend them, but I'm sure there are some works that don't
survive the transition. Tried to listen to Heidegger's Being in Time
once.... SHEESH! No go!

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> So how was the audiobook version? I've read AtD already but I've been
> wanting to go back to it. I realized that I spend most of my day at work
> listening to music when I could just as easily listen to a book on tape. It
> just seems so efficient but I'm worried that listening to it as opposed to
> reading it will cause some loss of content. Does that happen? I've never
> tried audiobooks.
>
> On Jun 25, 2014 10:04 PM, "Michael Bailey" <mikebailey at gmx.us> wrote:
>>
>> They just flew toward grace a few minutes ago...man what a yarn! Only
>> wished for a better stereo and a quieter car...volume control problematic
>> when there is such a variety of levels (but that's a feature not a bug!) Not
>> wanting to miss the quieter ruminations but dreading especially some of
>> Lindsay's expostulations.
>>
>> I noticed in particular a twin of passages: when Reef 'n' his little
>> family traversed the battlefield talking about the dead as unwanted
>> immigrants from another country...
>> & then not extremely much later Vibe after seeing Death or whatever on his
>> private train, talked about how he thought many of the striking miners might
>> be prematurely resurrected shades of east Europeans killed in strife there,
>> drawn to the similar karmic spoor in Colorado
>>
>> Vibe, unable to see his own actions as anything but correct, seeking out
>> epicyclic explanations...Foley eventually wielding Occam's revolver to send
>> him in for regrooving.
>>
>> Also, early instantiation of the Thanatoid theme (early historically, not
>> oeuvrologically)
>>
>> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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