music and a 4ch reading group

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Hi all, just a lurker here - thought to let you know that the literature board of 4chan, enfant terrible of web communities, is having a Gravity's Rainbow reading group - set to start today and go on over two months. Whether it will generate any discussion or disappear amidst mindless shit-flinging is anyone's guess.

Also linked the last time I popped over there was a bloke's recent album inspired by the book: http://navtey.bandcamp.com/album/refraction-in-blue
(not normally a fan of this kind of electronic music, but one may find something interesting in the interpretation despite the genre's repetitiveness)

While on the topic, I'm not sure the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book, putting to music some of the songs, has been mentioned on this list before? Although the dedicated webpage seems to be well dead right now, it lives on on soundcl... no, it doesn't... okay, here's the description from its own page and a working download link courtesy of the web archive - sorry, no streaming:
>Thomas Pynchon is one of the great unheard lyricists. His award-winning novel, Gravity's Rainbow, is stuffed full of song lyrics. Depending on how you count, there are around 100 in the book. Over the course of a year, the Thomas Pynchon Fake Book managed to set twenty-eight of them to music. A limited run CD the group put out also featured two bonus instrumentals inspired by the work, "The White Visitation" and "The Lonely Rocketman."
>The project doubled as an experiment in online music collaboration. Thirty seven people across four states contributed tracks. In June of 2009 the group held a CD release party in Portland, OR.
>The entirety of the work can be [downloaded at MediaFire](https://web.archive.org/web/20141218100333/http://www.mediafire.com/?qqus4nnnp2vbvvq).
http://www.mediafire.com/download/qqus4nnnp2vbvvq/The+Thomas+Pynchon+Fake+Book.zip
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