Not Toobage

[David Morris]

Yes. Warlock. Not bad. But not remarkable.  It doesn't fit the blurb.

David Morris

On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Are you thinking about that Oakley Hall book, *Warlock*?
>
> I keep meaning to read it.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:54 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> A positive Pynchon blurb is no guarantee of good writing. I forget the
>> name of the Western he highly praised, which I found just OK, but far from
>> great writing.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mike.weaver at zen.co.uk');>> wrote:
>>
>>> He also wrote an intro for Stone Junction. Maybe I was in the wrong mood
>>> when I read it but I thought it was the worst kind of mystic hippie wish
>>> fulfilment claptrap I'd ever read and could only think he and Jim Dodge
>>> must have got rat-arse wrecked together and that he wrote the intro before
>>> he went to bed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/12/2015 23:27, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>> For a while, the critics were with Mr. Robbins, though he never won over
>>> the highbrows. An exception was Thomas Pynchon, who blurbed “Even Cowgirls
>>> Get the Blues,” calling it “a piece of working magic, warm, funny and
>>> sane.”
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/books/tibetan-peach-pie-a-tom-robbins-memoir.html
>>>
>>> Or, to cite another critic, "An annoying piece of dreck you'll
>>> eventually throw through a window."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>>> To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>; Plist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Wed, Dec 9, 2015 4:55 pm
>>> Subject: Re: Not Toobage
>>>
>>> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/blurbs.html
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think he does it very occasionally. I know he blurbed Saunders once,
>>>> and it seems to get reprinted on all GS's books.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In general in that blurb?
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot remember--or maybe never knew---of general praise from him
>>>>> for a living writer.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > Yes, I believe it was a blurb for Far Tortuga, but he praised Mr.
>>>>> Mathiessen's work in general.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Where did P speak of Peter M.? Far Tortuga quote? maybe I remember?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>> If anyone can peel their eyeballs off of the Toob...;-)
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Our Mr. P spoke, or wrote, very highly of Peter Mathiessen, and
>>>>> it's easy to
>>>>> >>> see why. I've just finished Book One of Shadow Country, and I
>>>>> highly
>>>>> >>> recommend it. Shadow Country is a fictional account of the Florida
>>>>> frontier
>>>>> >>> in the early 1900's, and is his own reworking of three books which
>>>>> had been
>>>>> >>> published separately at the request or demand of his publishers.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Earlier this year, I read his In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, which
>>>>> is a
>>>>> >>> non-fiction treatment of the story of Leonard Peltier and the
>>>>> American
>>>>> >>> Indian Movement. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. It is
>>>>> also
>>>>> >>> excellent.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> --
>>>>> >>> <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / <http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l>
>>>>> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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