On the other hand, I like variety

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alcaray — 7/22/2006 4:02:58 PM (archived)

If I had to live on my two favorite authors, I'd grow to hate them. Finding something weird that is totally unlike what I'm used to is a precious experience - even when I find I don't like what I'm reading. "Wow bad!" is better than never "wow!" at all.

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A Christmas gift from Thomas Pynchon? - podrock - 7/20/2006 3:43:58 PM
- "Against the Day" - podrock - 7/21/2006 3:05:06 AM
- re: A Christmas gift from Thomas Pynchon? - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2006 4:49:01 PM
  - Chagrined to admit: a stone not yet touched - Fox - 7/20/2006 8:34:01 PM
    - Recommendation - podrock - 7/21/2006 2:51:36 AM
      - Confession of a Philistine - Tom Brosz - 7/21/2006 6:30:20 PM
        
        compared to Pynchon, Rand wrote with a crayon. - podrock - 7/23/2006 9:20:11 PM
        
        You miss a lot that way. - Mary Anne - 7/23/2006 12:45:18 AM
        
        Maybe. - Tom Brosz - 7/23/2006 2:13:43 AM
        
        I read reviews for a living, partly. - Mary Anne - 7/23/2006 5:25:38 PM
        
        On the other hand, I like variety - alcaray - 7/22/2006 4:02:58 PM
      - Thanks! M&D it is... (n/t) - Fox - 7/21/2006 3:47:34 AM
        
        Their original map - podrock - 7/21/2006 4:28:58 AM
  - I assay at 24 karat on your touchstone - podrock - 7/20/2006 8:16:54 PM
  - Yoyodyne: Thought it came from Buckaroo Banzai? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/20/2006 6:05:34 PM
    - The ultimate expression of free enterprise - ER - 7/20/2006 8:05:53 PM
    - re: Yoyodyne: Thought it came from Buckaroo Banzai? - podrock - 7/20/2006 7:39:27 PM
      - Huh! Guess I have to add Crying to my reading list (n/t) - alcaray - 7/20/2006 9:07:14 PM
  - All I've ever read of his was "The Crying of Lot 47" - McFly - 7/20/2006 5:18:31 PM
    - LOL - podrock - 7/20/2006 8:26:41 PM
      - Wasn't it amazing - LJK - 7/20/2006 8:37:42 PM

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