NP. The "Artful" thread OR "Every morning, some new, crazy shit."

Thu Dec 1 09:07:29 CST 2016

Alright, it's next after M&D. Had it on the shelf for quite a while.
Thanks, both...

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Yes -  To the Lighthouse is a wonderment.  It’s one of those books which
> can be read several times getting more out of it each time.  And it’s not
> that long!  The story of a woman and her family just before and during WWI.
>
> A Room of One's Own is also good but it’s a long essay about the
> importance of personal space in a woman author’s life - about a woman’s
> need for some independence (if I remember correctly).
>
> Mrs Dalloway is also very good - some stream of consciousness - similar in
> some ways to Ulysses which had been published only a few years prior and
> Woolf had read but …
>
> The only other book I’ve read by Woolf is Night and Day which I didn’t
> care for.  It’s  very, very slow with details piled on details because
> Woolf was trying to get every inner nuance of her protagonist’s behavior -
> similar in ways to the later works of Henry James, I think,  but with more
> emphasis on the emotional or inner life.  Every thought or half-thought is
> described so it takes her a whole chapter to answer the door.   Omg,  some
> kind of realism to the max.
>
> Becky
>
> > On Dec 1, 2016, at 5:17 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of female novelists---which is a ridiculous segue very akin to
> the crazy segue way Charles Portis
> > sees Americans acting and talking in this absurd country for any logic,
> one of Roth's key themes [see 1963 essay]  & a new reading discovery (this
> is another
> > faux Portis tic) --first time with odds for the recent Nobel, I learned,
> despite a small near-perfect output and a writer recommended to me years
> ago by a Plister which I finally acted on although I still do not know why
> I was gifted with
> > the recommendation because I could see no connection in the kind verbal
> act, but I guess that is a Portis-
> > like connection too---Virginia Woolf really had it together at her
> deepest and widest level in To The Lighthouse, which
> > in the above spirit I suggest all Plisters 'should' read but there are
> no 'shoulds' really, the stream of fiction is
> > so wide only Harold Bloom can speed swim through it.
> >
> > Anyway, to tie up this pretentious post over wake-up coffee--pretention
> an ongoing theme
> > which might not be circumvented by meta-preemptive awareness of it, that
> meta that DFW so hated,
> > I suggest that the movement of the words between commas and the number
> of them in this post is another homage---this time
> > to Ms. Woolf, suffering genius, although it is surely a Crying Wolf
> homage.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Second Last Samurai about as I hard as I can second. She's brilliant,
> book is great and singular, all Plisters should read.
> >
> > On Nov 29, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> And now I've started reading Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai, and I
> love it so far.  I only read 40 pages last night, but I can't wait to get
> home and get into again.  Here's a review from when it was initially
> published in 2001, on her site:
> >>
> >> http://www.helendewitt.com/dewitt/review01.html
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> My library of yet unread books just grew by three...thanks a lot, I
> think!
> >>
> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >>
> >> > On Nov 28, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Not I -  but thank you for the recommendation -  it’s now on my wish
> list.   :-)
> >> >
> >> > And to whomever mentioned The Quincunx by Charles Palliser I’ll
> second (or third) it.
> >> >
> >> > Bekah/Becky
> >> > back in California and on the list!   :-)
> >> >
> >> >> On Nov 28, 2016, at 6:39 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for the recommendation.
> >> >>
> >> >> I recently finished another book that someone recommended here -
> can't remember who - Bekah?
> >> >>
> >> >> A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava. A brilliant
> deconstruction of the criminal justice system, and well worth the read,
> though I do think the book would have been stronger if he'd had an editor
> to work with (he self-published). Some of the tangents he goes off on start
> to cloy. Did the recommender say it was Pynchon-esque? There is a Whole
> Sick Crew-like group of roommates, but it seems to be more inspired by
> Junot Diaz, Cortazar, etc. - with a little Dostoyevsky thrown in, for good
> measure.
> >> >>
> >> >> Laura
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> From: Robert Mahnke
> >> >> Sent: Nov 28, 2016 5:59 PM
> >> >> To: P-list
> >> >> Subject: Artful (NP)
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I've just read Ali Smith's Artful, and recommend it, fwiw.  It's
> remarkable, and unlike anything else I can think of.
> >> >> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >> >
> >> > Becky
> >> > https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -
> >> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>
> >
>
> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>
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