group read idea - "this piece of paper...

[peterthooper at juno.com]

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From: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>


I will most definitely promise to try to take part if and when the next
read-along takes place. Give it the old college try as they say, despite my
almost total lack of success during the last three (the only minor interest
I managed to spark during the Mason & Dixon read had to do with my seeing a
surreptitious 666 hidden in the oddly put-together ampersand of the title
graphic... and that's actually pretty embarrassing to me).


- Mark - wait...you judge success by responses in a group read? I thought responses are good, but no responses is also good, indicative of general satisfaction with the content. Default value true or something 

"Y-you mean life *isn't* Vegas?"
My topic for the tentative LISSTVPR, then, would be who said that in _Vineland_ with context and implications 

Am I supposed to answer it myself - that could wind up kind of auto-focused. Oh for Glenn Scheper to help sort that out.

2nd topic - things friends said about Vineland when you suggested or loaned or gave them a copy (with commentary if at all possible)

3rd topic - mention an article on Vineland and at least one point made in it (with commentary optional but appreciated)
For a truly small topic mention *only* one point in it but comment to repletion




I'm about to start a book club read of Sapiens by some author with a very
strange name that eludes me at the moment, but we're going to take that one
slow, and I can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, so...

Jerky

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35 AM Raphael Saltwood <
PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:

> ...'s got 47 words, 15 sentences, we want to know the details of the
> crime, arresting officer, all the kind of things you want to say..."
>
> There are some really enjoyable previous group reads if you look
> back...that Andrew Dinn and Bonnie Surfus consistently knocked the ball out
> of the park; Toby's 3 pages a day M&D also fab, many others also -
>
> can't imitate or duplicate those
>
> despite free time perhaps others also feel a bit scattered, worried,
>
> but ---tentatively -
> less ergodic idea - a little different, non-linear -
> boldly proposing a schedule as follows
>
> 1) 4/13 - musical, Tubal and movie references (your name here?)
>
> 2) 4/15 - labor, protest, PR3 references
>
> 3) 4/17 - Vietnam references (RC, Vato & Blood, etc)
>
> 4) 4/19 - Frenesi and DL
>
> 5) 4/21 - Frenesi and BV
>
> 6) 4/23 - Frenesi and Zoyd
>
> 7) 4/25 Prairie qua Prairie & Prairie vis a vis Frenesi, I24, Sister
> Rochelle,
>
> 8) 4/27 - Zoyd's friendly interactions, brief annotated census
> (tentatively I would like this one)
>
> 9) 4/29 - DL and Takeshi
>
> 10) 5/1 - Is there a moral, and if so, what is it? Ethical takeaways?
>
> 11) 5/3 -  is the D&G fakebook more than a throwaway reference? Are there
> philosophical / theoretical / religious underpinnings & if so, what, how
> and why?
>
> Would welcome any constructive or deconstructive suggestions -
> seems to me like it could be a quick and fun read, non-comprehensive on
> purpose
>
> could stretch it out (a week, 2, a month?)
> or compress (1 day apiece!)
>
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