Nora Bossong recommends Mason & Dixon as Corona reading because it has so many pages ...

[Mark Kohut]

Anniversaries IS great. It has infused discussion groups I am part of AND
my Lifelong Learning
class on the sixties.

One paragraph or part I quoted here Jochen confirmed was good translating.

Re:* Miss MacIntosh*. I confess. I was a young kid, burning with You Must
Know Everything fervor (direct allusion to
Babel's great story), now reading book reviews for the first time ever
(LOL. A waste of time that came to define a career
when, young, I  just should have been gulping down classics) and ex-Marxist
Granville Hicks reviewed it in *The Saturday Review*
and, of course, I wondered how he could have read it so fast and I wanted
to read it then and there but i didn't, couldn't,  although
within a decade I HAD a hardcover (and I hope it wasn't a first edition;
were there two printings, I guess so) which I kept for decades
and how one loses a book THAT SIZE in one move or other is another mystery
of life. Just like I lost the small in height but very stout
oxford classics edition of *War & Peace* somehow alone in my apartment in
Jersey City!.

I must have given the Macintosh away (or donated it somewhere) figuring I
would never....

And now I am reading the Maude translation of *War & Peace*...again.

And I did donate *Women & Men* to the book sale in town I used to run for
the usual "i'll be dead before I read it" reasons and when it sold I
immediately wanted it back. LOL.

Robert Gottlieb, when young, but twenties young not teen young, when he
wanted to read Proust did it almost like a campaign. Planned a week alone
in his room; told friends not to bother him; did not do anything else but
eat and read, ignoring the phone, the mail and he did get to the end in a
week. A book a day, of 12-14 or more hours a day. Too me two years at @50
pages a week.

But I think Rich's 20 pages a day of* Macintosh* might be the way...I can
read other stuff too and not feel all alone in one book.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:54 AM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now it’s my turn to admit I’d never heard of this before today!
>
> Have read The Recognitions* but not JR. A scan of Wikipedia’s list of
> longest novels reminds me of various works I’ve failed to approach:
> Clarissa, Les Miserables, A Dance to the Music of Time, Women and Men, The
> Dream of the Red Chamber.
>
> I do also have A Suitable Boy lined up; have long been intrigued by Uwe
> Johnson’s Anniversaries, which I believe have only recently been translated
> into English; will probably give Atlas Shrugged a miss (I’ve seen two film
> adaptations of The Fountainhead and that feels like more than enough Ayn
> Rand for one lifetime)
>
> My current reading pile is hardly the most esoteric - Alias Grace and The
> Waves - but we’ve all got to find time to read the supposed canon
> somewhere, so enjoy your reading time
>
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Been wanting to read MIss Macintosh, My Darling for 50+ years. Now I just
>> want to have read it.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> > On Mar 31, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Don't forget Gaddis for your list of doorstoppers. My favorite is J R
>> but
>> > The Recognitions is incredible and A Frolic of His Own is hilarious.
>> (They
>> > are all hilarious, to be sure. Carpenter's Gothic shorter, still very
>> > good).
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:39 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Gary: I just read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask and damn he's a hell
>> >> of a writer. Absolutely of interest to fans of Pynchon (esp. GR).
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:02 AM Allan Balliett <
>> allan.balliett at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> For those as lazy as I am right now, I have a virtual copy of the
>> Albert
>> >>> Finney UNDER THE VOLCANO that I'm happy to loan. Contact me off P-List
>> >> for
>> >>> details.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Allan in WV
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:39 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
>> >> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Just see to it that your children do not destroy the garden.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Am 31.03.2020 um 16:03 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> (Drinking mezcal, I'm reading Under the Volcano: what a great book.)
>> >>>> --
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