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[Mark Thibodeau]

Man, I hate to admit this, but I have yet to read Against the Day.

I just can't wrap my head around the basic identity of the thing if that
makes any sense, and that's something I kind of need to be able to do with
a novel before I tackle the actual reading part.

Also, I'm not the brightest bulb in the marquee, so while I read Lot 49,
Vineland and Inherent Vice without difficulty, it took me about a half
dozen runs at V. to get past "that" chapter (Stencil's quick change
chapter), it took me well over 20 false starts with Gravity's Rainbow (and
now I know the first fifty pages or so by heart), about the same for Mason
& Dixon. As for Bleeding Edge, I quit at the third awful sex scene, and
have yet to get back to it. I realize the group read would have been a good
opportunity to fill that Pynchonian lacuna, but I just had too much going
on when y'all started.

Jerky

Jerky

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 9:50 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed.
>
> And *Against the Day* is the largest and richest of all. But not as
> perfect as those two.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 9:42 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> Pynchon has masterworks to spare. And GR has already been thoroughly
>> explored.
>>
>> Mason & Dixon, for example, is arguably the superior work.
>>
>> Jerky
>>
>> On Thu., Mar. 24, 2022, 9:35 a.m. rich, <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> program is interesting in GR is hardly the subject of any, if at all,
>>> which
>>> is a good thing
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 4:22 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
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