NP.

[Robert Mahnke]

Has anyone read this? Recommended?

Pynchon fans might like Laurent Binet's Civilizations -- I did. One review
here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/29/civilisations-by-laurent-binet-review-counterfactual-hi-jinks

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:02 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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