NYTimes silliness

[Thomas N. Dennis]

Gah, 
	thanks for passing this along, Penny. Made my otherwise
worthless vacation--now I have to hunt down that issue to see it for
myself... I sense Robin Wms would do just fine for some long-winded
sections...

TND
> >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!)