NYTimes silliness

[Penny Padgett]

>From "You've Read the Book!  Now Sniff It!" (NYTimes Book 
Review, 9/1/96, p. 27):

  _Gravity's Rainbow_  This audio rendition of Thomas
  Pynchon's epic masterpiece makes your average book on
  tape sound like an old Edison cylinder.  Fully digitized
  using the latest technology, "Gravity's Rainbow:  The DAT"
  now brings you the novel Pynchon wanted you to hear.
  You'll duck for cover as the V-2's come screaming across
  the sky.  You'll laugh and cry at the dialogue as read
  by an all-star cast that includes Robin Williams as the
  tumescent Tyrone Slothrop and Anthony Hopkins as Octopus
  Grigori.  And you won't want to miss the legendary Dylan
  crooning the notorious "Rocket Limericks":  "There once
  was a fellow named Moorehead / Who had an affair with a
  warhead."

Other books given similar treatment in this article include 
_Ulysses_, _On the Road_, and _Naked Lunch_.  Sadly, none
of them is any funnier than the GR one.

Penny (Robin Williams as Slothrop?  Bleaurgh!)