blurbs

[jm]

>
>hudson b. wants blurbs:
>> if all could post the
>>novels they know of with TP blurbs, whether the novel is bunk or not....
>>the ones i know of:
>>
>>"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" ---Robbins
>>"Mao II"----DeLillo
>>"Civilwarland in Bad Decline"
>
>If my brain weren't busted, I'd do better, but, here's one:  STONE JUNCTION
by Jim Dodge.  A very very good book, not bunk, IMHO, w/ a good blurb to boot.
>

I gotta disagree on Stone Junction.  Though I'm a big fan of Dodge's FUP, I
abandoned Stone Junction after a hundred pages or so, thinking it was like
something Robert Anton Wilson might've come up with.  Is it true that
Melanie Jackson is Jim Dodge's agent?   

Now for the OBVIOUS example--the Pynchon blurb on the back of the Dell
paperback edition of Farina's _Down so long..._ which sez:  "Hilarious,
chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous...all at the
same time."   
                                   -THOMAS PYNCHON, AUTHOR OF "V"


-jm