Not Toobage

[Keith Davis]

Regardless, I'm enjoying Shadow Country, and recommend it, so far.

Www.innergroovemusic.com

> On Dec 9, 2015, at 9:57 PM, 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> 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> 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.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> --
>>>>>> >>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> -
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