Everything okay out there in Pynchon-land?

[Mark Kohut]

I know...let's all do a Wonderland Read unto entropic falling-off?


On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> I liked the juxtaposition of a lot of DeLillo's old themes with new
> material.   There's a kind tone of existential threat (horror?) here what
> with trying to distinguish between living and not living.   That ambiance
> or tone or atmosphere was also present in The Body Artist as well as Point
> Omega.
>
> And there’s a rather interesting,  albeit fictional,  exploration of the
> idea of cryogenics and immortality.  I thought it was an honest exploration
> although the ending seemed to suggest D was not convinced of its being a
> good idea.  (heh)
>
> The old DeLillo is present with films being important in the book -  again
> - what is life and what is media -  freezing the action?  Death on screen?
>
> I think this book got more personal this time.  The characters seemed to
> be more developed internally - they were thinking and feeling more than in
> most of D's prior novels,  especially Jeffrey.
>
> I like the way D writes.
>
> Underworld is still without question D’s tour de force,  his masterpiece,
> Cosmopolis his semi-clunker,  and this falls in the middle - along with The
> Names and Point Omega.
>
> Fwiw,  there’s a real cryonics lab in Arizona
> http://www.alcor.org
> and another one  in China -
> http://www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/1859328/cheating-death-
> elderly-writer-first-known-chinese-test-subject
> probably more by now.
>
> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>
> > On Dec 4, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I like DeLillo, but found Zero K rolling my eyes every few pages. What
> was it that you all liked about it?
> >
> > On Dec 4, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I thought the original question referred to the P-list -- the passing
> of the December 1st start of the M&D group read, and the deafening silence
> on that score -- rather than to Pynchon himself.
> >>
> >> LK
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >> I enjoyed Zero K -   I think it’s probably DeLillo at his usual finest
> - only Underworld and possibly The Names stand higher.  I also   was
> strongly reminded of Point Omega or,  maybe in some ways,  The Names.
> >>
> >>
> >> Becky
> >> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
> >>
> >> > On Dec 3, 2017, at 10:24 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Is it understood that the object of our obsession is currently
> working on a new long-form work? Or is this just conjecture?
> >> >
> >> > I'm half-way through Zero K, Delillo's latest. At this point, it
> could end up being just slightly better than, or just slightly less amazing
> than, Point Omega.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone else out there have any opinions re: Zero K?
> >> >
> >> > Jerky
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Arthur Fuller <
> fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Tough question, Tom's next location/dateline, especially after
> Vineland. But always willing to respond to difficult questions, I'm going
> to suggest that he return to the past, as Neal Stephenson did with the
> fabulous trilogy; alternatively, maybe he could pen a story about being
> best man to Richard Farina, who married Mimi, sister of Joan Baez and
> author of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.
> >> >
> >> > A.
> >> > ​
> >> >
> >>
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