The "I'm just not feeling it" thread

[Mark]

Thank you for your input, Mike, Jason, everyone! I liked the opening scene with Hal. It was based on that and Wallace's interview in '96-97 with Charlie Rose that made me believe I was in for a stunner. There've been portions about Mario that I liked, and Karen's scene early in the book (60ish-70ish). But overall there have been many more barren plains than I expected. Many more. At this point, I'm not expecting any aha moments, just to make it to the end. Wallace seemed like an interesting guy from his interviews/speeches (that commencement to the 2005 class at Kenyon was very well done), but I can't say I'm a fan of his fiction.

[Mark]

Mike wrote: "Actually, I dread finding the entire experience culminates in a bad joke premised on the words Infinite and Jest. I'd say 'worst fear' but that would overstate my revised expectations."

This was how I felt after reading Pynchon's V. It felt like a 400+ page setup to a paragraph- (or may even a sentence-) long punchline. I loved Gravity's Rainbow when the group read it last year, so maybe a reread of V. is in order.

But it wouldn't surprise me at all to see your worst fears come true :D (Crossing fingers that it won't.)