NEW YORK _ These days, talk in the Yank clubhouse centers around one hot topic -- and, no, this time it's not the President's health care plan.
It's Inherent Vice, the latest page-turner from the master of the beach-read, Thomas Pynchon, out today.
"We camped all night at the Barnes & Noble," said Melky Cabrera, through interpreter Robbie Cano, who are avid fans of the brassy novelist. "To celebrate the occasion, I dressed up as a giant adenoid, and Robbie came as a banana-egg souffle."
Cabrera recently finished rereading Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche, so the new Pynchon thriller arrives just in time.
He plans to bring the Pynchon novel to the team book club, as soon as the current reading -- The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran -- is finished.
"Every Pynchon novel is fraught with myriad obstacles," said Joba Chamberlain. "I anticipate the veritable cornucopia of imagery that befits the writer's singular fabric."
John and Suzyn are big readers, too! John just devoured "Bluff: My Years On The Hollywood Squares" by Vincent Price, while Suzyn burned through "I Am Not Sue Ann Nivens" by Betty White. Now they're swapping!
ReplyDeleteAfter they are all done with the new Pynchon novel, they can all move on to books written my good friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Taormino who just also happens to be Pynchon's niece.
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ReplyDeleteEaswaran didn't write the Bhagavad Gita centuries ago, however. Just translated it, little more recently.
I haven't read The Bhagavad Gita, but I've listened to Iron Butterfly's recording of it.
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