Not Toobage

[John Bailey]

I read The Haunting of L and The Testament of Yves Gudron after he
blurbed 'em. I don't recall much of either beyond the fact that they
both seemed pretty artless and pointless and other things less.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried a few other things he made positive comments about that I didn't dig
> at all. Couldn't get through Nog. Days Between Stations was pretty good. The
> James Hillman was very interesting. Civilwarland is seriously twisted.
> Definitely worth reading..My Escape From the CIA is Funny, the other stories
> in the collection pretty good. Dreamland was interesting.  The Restraint of
> Beasts is weird and twisted. Slack jaw is great. Haven't gotten to the
> others yet...
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:14 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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