NP.

[Mark Thibodeau]

Holy Moly!

Someone has attempted to write an encyclopeadic novel about one of the
most fascinating topics in the history of fascinating topics, Jacob
Frank and the Sabbatean Jews?!

I'm there for it, man!

Once my To Be Read list narrows out a bit.

yer old pal Jerky

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:19 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just purchased BOJ.  So we shall see…
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Since most won't care, and they have no need to, this is an indulgence.
> > But *The Books of Jacob* is quite difficult to read; OR, is quite difficult
> > for me to read.
> >
> > I will allude to Pynchon only in two ways. It does remind me of the first
> > time I
> > read, tried to read,* Gravity's Rainbow*. Because of all the characters
> > introduced,
> > discrete scenes and themes started. Except for a few musings and riffs that
> > I will
> > call metaphysical, overtly theological [ very Judaic--and very beyond, I
> > think--, in which I am weak] or otherwise transcendent of a nitty-gritty
> > world
> > of the past, mid 1700s Poland, and, o yes, its ambition, it isn't much like
> > GR at all. That I can tell. (Why even did I say this?; no one said it was.)
> > And those
> > musings within remind more of the metaphoric associative leaps of *Against
> > the Day* than GR. Those musings
> > and some other things are marvelous though, but like raisins in a harsh
> > oatmeal so far, to use a lame cliche.
> >
> > Thanks for reading my reading diary entry for the day.
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