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)

[Becky Lindroos]

Like Mark and Monte I read AtD over Thanksgiving weekend 2006.   I’d had it pre-ordered and it was popped on my doorstep on Wednesday afternoon or evening and I promptly started in.    I lived alone and my parents who also lived in town had gone to see out-of-town siblings for the holidays.  My kids were with their spouse families also out of town.  I was alone.   I may have eaten a turkey TV dinner in honor of the holiday and got back to the book.   I finished Sunday.   (I might have gone out with friends on Saturday evening.)  

I read it straight through in something like marathon reading - stopping to sleep.  I reread it a few weeks later because it’s a great book.   I think we started a group read here early in 2007.  

Becky
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 6:22 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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