what to read before the Read?

[Mark Kohut]

I recommend them all. After

......but I am with the Mike who said, let's just read the damn thing and
TALK about what we are reading (paraphrase)......sometimes one needs only
point to
great sentences, wonderful images and dialogue, surprising tropes, point
laughing at the constant wit......etc.



On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Sounds worthwhile. Expensive and not in the Mass Public library system
> which is how I do interlibrary loans.  It is available at Williams College
> which is 20 minutes away but I would have to read in the Library.
> > On Oct 30, 2017, at 1:41 PM, David Elliott <ellidavd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone recommend "The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon:
> Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations" by Elizabeth Jane
> Wall Hinds?
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Worlds-Pynchons-
> Mason-Dixon/dp/1571134115/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_
> rd_i=1571134115&pd_rd_r=8WMZXJVG021F3J6HWFYK&pd_rd_w=
> jcIm9&pd_rd_wg=tEyb8&psc=1&refRID=8WMZXJVG021F3J6HWFYK
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, October 30, 2017 1:18 PM, Jochen Stremmel <
> jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > There is a wonderful book by Henry Miller about the books in his life
> where
> > he says something like: you shouldn't read more, you should read less.
> >
> > 2017-10-30 17:32 GMT+01:00 Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:
> > Last thing I binged was Sons of Anarchy; I watched seven seasons in one
> week, a season a day. I remember saying to a friend of mine, this is not a
> biker story, this is Shakespeare on wheels, and I was proved correct in the
> credits of the last episode, a quote from King Lear, the best play ever
> penned.
> >
> > I read a shocking stat last week, and it made me realize how little I
> know and how uneducated I am. Last year, 180,000 books were publlished in
> England alone. At 3 per week, and sometimes it's slower going, depending on
> the depth. Let's calculate this; 3 per week time 52 weeks equals 156 books
> per annum, which is a miniscule fraction of the books published in England,
> let alone the USA, Canada, etc. In other words, I am just slightly better
> than illiterate. I've read every word from Thomas Pynchon and William
> Gaddis and a few others, including J.S. Mill, Jeremy Bentham and Werner
> Heisenberg. But there remain the couple of hundred thousand books per year
> that I have not read.
> >
> > Arthur
> > ​
> >
> >
> >
>
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