New GR book - Herman & Weisenburger

[rich]

Fest is a personal favorite. His short sketches of many of the Nazi
leadership I can't praise enough

On Friday, March 14, 2014, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks. Buying. Rereading. You can say that again. Rereading.
>
> Besides four other Pynchon-related books, I liked that customers who
> bought also bought
>
> NOT I: Memoirs of a German Childhood by Joachim Fest.
>
> Was that you, Monte? (joke)
>
>
>   On Friday, March 14, 2014 12:22 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','montedavis49 at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
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> http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Domination-Freedom-Herman/dp/0820335088/
>
> Cowart, Krafft, McHale, and Library Journal praise it. The first reader
> review, by some bozo named Davis, adds:
>
> "I've been reading Pynchon since 1967 and following the critical
> literature sporadically since the mid-1970s. There's no other single volume
> that ties the title's central themes to other themes in GR so clearly...
>
> That details so well how specific events and movements of the 1960s (e.g.
> the Free Speech Movement and censorship trials) as well as those of 1945
> found their way into the text...
>
> Or that is, like Pynchon himself, so sympathetic to the rebels of the
> "Counterforce" AND so clear-eyed about their fading prospects.
>
> From now on, this book should be the starting point for GR readers who
> want to dig deeper."
>
>
>
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