bibliography and Vineland

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

> one of folks who admire the dense apocalypticism of V. and GR more
> than the other work--and one of folks who admire the Lot the most?
> 
> Personally, I am of the former camp, but in general I wonder if attitudes
> shake out in this way.
> 
In my view V. is a very good novel, but Lot 49 and GR are better
still: they electrify the reader more intensely, their magic is
stronger, or something. GR has no peers, it is something unbelievable, the 
quintessential 20th century text, but as a dense short text Lot 49 doesn't
pale in comparison with e.g. The Waste Land or Pale Fire, on the contrary. 
It's so great to have them both, and V., too. Vineland is indeed remarkably
inferior to these three, but is almost as good as anything by any 
other contemporary writer.

> --Jeff
> 

Heikki