Pynchon's Style

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

I'm having such a hard time wrapping around this alleged "flatness."  
Maybe I read too comprehensively, and thus miss this "dull prose" in 
light of a more readily apparent and very complex whole.  This is not to 
say that I am a far superior reader to anyone else.  I have thought that 
being a woman helps (oh how I did not want to reveal that.)

Could someone please help me to understand what is meant by this 
"flatness?"  ARe you speaking comparatively?  Or is _V._ allegedly "flat" 
on its own?  Personally, I have trouble deciding which I like better, 
_V._ or _GR_?  About this "flatness," do you sense that there's something 
beneath it?  Or is it plain dull?  Are you speaking of the length or 
brevity of sentences?  Wha?

I am not trying to be rude, believe me.  It's just that I've seen this 
talk go on and on and I still can't figure how to reconcile my sense of 
the novel's extremely evokative and dynamic nature and this suggetion 
that it is acutally quite the reverse.

Please help.

Bonnie