Very P but all impressionistic.

[Mike Weaver]

Definitely the case for me that GR remains the main course because it 
resonated so strongly with my unacademic but intellectual, politically 
radical, doper mentality of the time it was published. It wasn't so much 
that I was there but even growing up on a farm out in the sticks in the 
UK I kept up via the underground papers with what was going on in both 
in London and the US cities. I have wondered how it rings with younger 
generations who missed out on the optimistic innocence of those 
Counterforce years and can only relate to the mentality historically. 
Vineland seemed to me to be a healthy response to that naivety, as 
plainmrbotany has noted.

Just now I finally finished ATD (and the wiki has crashed, it was there 
a couple of hours ago.) I'd made it to page 200 a couple of times before 
but it has taken a few weeks on the sick to give me the time for the 
necessary persistence. And yes it is a wonderful sprawl of a story and I 
will soon dig into the list archives for the first time round discussions.
Yesterday I ordered Marcus Du Sautoy's /Music of the Primes /which I 
read about 10 years ago and found a good guide to the subject and 
especially Reimann's work.

Of the big three, M&D may be better literature, and ATD is less of a 
brain strain but I will stick with GR as my best, if only for the 
emotional energy which Pynchon put into it.

cheers
Mike


On 20/04/2019 11:48, Mark Kohut wrote:
> I have just read a long twitter thread responding to the question
> Which is Thomas Pynchon's best novel?...(person was reading GR).
>
> 1) supposition: the twitter responders skew younger than most of the Plist.
> 2) many of the plist have read most of TRP from GR on, as they were
> published
>
> 3) Surprising me, there were a lot of Against the Day answers. As well as M
> & D answers
> and not an easy plurality for GR. ---and a putting GR into some kind of
> context--from "needs multiple readings" to what seems like
> you had to be there, so to speak.
>
> Just sayin'.
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l



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