Not P but some of that music you all can hear better'n me. (some good while you're (re)reading M & D, i bet)

[Mark Kohut]

Me too!.....

Although I, separated from family, decided to visit my oldest college buddy
living outside of Chicago...one
of the too few friends I had then who had read Gravity's Rainbow, although
decades later, having scoffed at me in a
younger life for chasing after the new and incomprehensible ( he read older
stuff when young)....

I bought him a copy of AtD from a Borders' 'dump display' (as the publisher
cardboard book displayers are called) as a house gift--and his wife a
Collected Poe...
and, staying a week, while he worked a little the days around Thanksgiving,
I read his....feeling so exuberant...."I see themes and things from my
window!"
 ......and waited to get mine back in Jersey. And discovered the wiki and
this List....and, a new 'organic' Lost Colony was self-found.

I have no inside knowledge, (unlike I had with M & D) re anything about its
publication except it is experiencedly pretty certain that they planned to
get this in stores
before Thanksgiving, the Day that Divides the Line of the Holiday Rush, so
to allude in M & D's time.
We know how many last minute corrections TRP made and how little time
reviewers
had.....optimal publishing woudda had it out AT LEAST a month earlier with
time to get it into store holiday promotions, which have been locked up
with catalogs printed
by this week in November. But, worse, it must have been judged,  would have
been to be a January book.

The lack of ANY retail discounting and printed promotion could not have
helped sales, which is one reason that hugely advanced-into-stores first
print ended up with a lot
in the 'remainder' market. (Let me tell you how unusual it is to have 'dump
displays' of a book that is NOT in the holiday catalogs)
....I think, if I remember right, that by January--March 07, Amazon, which
must have overbought a ton (probably non-returnable at higher margins)
had reduced it to under $10...(as low as $5-6??)....
I remember wanting to buy a couple--three (or more) to have and give away
but I was all worried about money then.

My friend never read it, could not get into it AT ALL and was continuing
his creep into Right Republicanism. We no longer speak, not because of
political differences
but because of lies ...long before Trump.

But it was a great visit with him,  his immediate family, kids I'd never
seen, one who spun his reading of Death of a Salesman over a meal and their
very extensive
extended family and friends. It felt, later, not that day, like the picnic
scene in Pynchon for social warmth and new Thanksgiving conversations.

And I post more than 19 minutes a day, too.





On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember reading AtD over Thanksgiving 2006 -- a better excuse for
> hiding away from family-in-law & football than usual.
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://twitter.com/johnlingan/status/930787445540622337
>>
>> Didja know that book industry stats, always dubious, say more reading is
>> done over Thanksgiving, esp Thanksgiving eve, than over any other holiday?
>> More than the 19 minute a day average---BY READERS (not all peoples)!
>>
>> Anyone buy a t--shirt that said MORE THAN 19 MINUTES?
>>
>
>
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