Not Toobage

[Keith Davis]

There was a website with a page of blurbs that seems to have disappeared. Any ideas what that was?

Www.innergroovemusic.com

> On Dec 9, 2015, at 10:48 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>>>>>>>>> 
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