Not Everyone Appreciates GR

[Antonin Scriabin]

That's rough. Gaddis is probably a harder sell than Pynchon. There is a
certain pop culture mind share that Pynchon has that Gaddis lacks (the
movie, for example).

I liked GR throughout, and found the last 200 pages or so to be
particularly great. "Who would have thought so many would be here? ..." ;
"He has warped a skein of his dreams into Pirate's own ... " ; the musings
on Imipolex G, to say nothing of Byron and the breakdown into superheroes.
Lots to love in the last half.
On May 11, 2014 11:43 AM, "Erik T. Burns" <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> At my advanced age I am no longer trying to convince anyone to read GR. I
> just hang out with you lot.
>
> I do still proselytize for Gaddis but so far with almost no success.
>
>
>
>   *From: *Henry M
> *Sent: *Sunday, May 11, 2014 4:31 PM
> *To: *rich
> *Cc: *Mark Kohut; David Morris; Pynchon Liste
> *Subject: *Re: Not Everyone Appreciates GR
>
> I would, if anything, divide the book into halves with the center being
> one half, and the two outliers of the curve adding up to the other half.  I
> know many people who couldn't get past that first section, btw.
>
>
> Yours truly,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:53 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Except for gottfried the last 100 pigs or so I was always found
>> underwhelming
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No, No, No....the damn book completes itself there.
>>>
>>> Only bad/weak books have a "better half".
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On May 10, 2014, at 6:56 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would folks disagree that the first half of the book is better than the
>>> latter half?
>>>
>>> On Saturday, May 10, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I liked:
>>>>
>>>> I only finished it beacuse I was on jury duty.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://biblioklept.org/2014/05/08/selections-from-one-star-amazon-reviews-of-thomas-pynchons-gravitys-rainbow/
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours truly,
>>>>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>>>>> Henry Musikar, CISSP
>>>>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>>>>>
>>>>
>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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