Chekhov's Mistress
Pynchon Against the Day
Thanks to the goodly yet balding gentleman known in these parts and beyond as Edward Champion who has taken it upon himself to collect a handful of brave readers of Mr. Pynchon’s massive – and I do mean massive in so many ways – novel, I’ve posted my thoughts on the early part of the book at MetaxuCafe and luckily at Mr. Champion’s site as well.
Read on and would someone please argue with me? Where are the comments people? There are holes enough in my argument of apocalypse and comparing the Chums of Chance to Christian saviors in the Arthurian mold that someone has to take me on.
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Oh Bud! How I want to argue with you! If only I’d read the damn thing. It’s still teetering on top of the pile, intimidating me with its heft. I’ll get there, I’m sure, but not in time to put myself in the ring.
– callie (01/05 at 01:52 PM)
Oh Bud! I’m going to be more helpless than Callie. I couldn’t even finish the NYTBR of the thing. I think I may leave the planet without cracking Pynchon…
Btw, Pynchon is reviewed in this month’s *Oprah.* I haven’t read the review, but there is a very funny picture in the mag’s opening pages of the reviewer peeking through the galleys, which he chopped into thirds to make the project less intimidating. Very funny. And I loved the self-help angle: a real Oprah-friendly version of how to tackle a difficult task.
Happy 2007!
– Anne Fernald (01/05 at 02:06 PM)
no worries, but for such a major book it does seem lonely reading it.
I will say that I was hesitant in the beginning, but blogging about it did pull me in a bit because with Pynchon it’s all about the details.
– Bud Parr (01/05 at 05:15 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: January 05, 2007
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