"well, no, i usually, uh-" this is embarrassing for perdoo, it's like being called on to, to justify eating an apple, or even popping a grape into your mouth- "just, well, sort of, eat them... whole, you know"
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I finished Gravity's Rainbow yesterday. I wondered exactly how to express my reaction, or opinion. The more I wondered, the more my reactions threatened, or promised, to alter.
I shouldn't exaggerate that last point, though.
Some day I would like to take, or make, some room to say, and possibly also discover, some of what I think of the book.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― nestmanso (nestmanso), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
Depsite much pynchon-love coming from Joel and other people I think highly of, I just can't get into Pynchon.
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
Have read crying a couple of times and enjoyed it lots. I'm thinking its a cousin to PKD's 'Three stigmata of palmer eldritch' so that means its great.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
I was shocked by how conventional they are. I didn't like 'Atrophy' that much despite its reputation and really dug that one about the guy who runs off with the garbage man.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Thursday, 7 August 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
My bad.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Thursday, 7 August 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Friday, 8 August 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 8 August 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
FWIW, Sam, I much prefer that other crazy literary recluse guy.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:45 (twenty years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
Where Slothrop gets horny, bombs drop. Now, a study of the Herero.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
That may contain the germ of a defence, as well as the outline of a rejection.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
The second is to look at all other sections as self-contained -- like an obliquely connected collection of short stories.
To understand how it all connects, let x represent the number of times you read it. Then let x approach infinity.
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link
alt. as a set of symbol systems (zodiac tarot jungian etc.) mapped onto one another and an investigation into the moralism of ways of knowing and meaning.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
Another problem I have is that I tend to read very quickly - sometimes skim-reading - and that's just not something you can do with GR, is it?!
I'm going back to it again this weekend, to start from the beginning again. Wish me luck!
― C J (C J), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 26 September 2003 03:44 (twenty years ago) link
― david acid (gareth), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh dear God
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― city of gyros (chaki), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link
xxxpost best novel by an ex-CIA agent: might be those by pen names ov Paul Linebarger, though I haven't yet read any (though omg the shorter fiction)
― dow, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:10 (seven months ago) link
re: Linebarger, the short fiction is amazing and stands up today. if anything only more prescient on e.g. animal liberation. nonfictionwise, Psychological Warfare is sitting on my desk but I haven't cracked it yet.
best by ex-CIA probably deserves its own thread. Frank Herbert seems obvious but afaict he genuinely was not affiliated.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:25 (six months ago) link
Don't forget Harry Mathews
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 21:07 (six months ago) link