Brief AtD appreciation after listening to it
Doc Sportello
coolwithdoc at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 08:24:59 CDT 2014
Nice! Rebecca got bifurcated by Iceland spar
On Jun 26, 2014 6:20 AM, "Rebecca Lindroos" <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> Dick Hill does an incredible job on AtD. I read it first and listened the
> second time. There is no surpassing his rendition of "Suck-ling!"
>
> Bekah
>
> On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Right on, I listened to a sample of the guys voice who read IV and it
> sounds promising. Might give that one a listen too.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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