another rave

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

     Michael Dirda's not _that_ old, though he has won a Pulitzer or two.  
     He's also been to enough sf conventions to know the truth of from 
     whence he spake, conceeding the overlap in the final sentence.
     
     


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Subject: another rave
Author:  Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com> at dbnaccip
Date:    4/27/97 8:21 AM


Another rave review for M&D in the Washington Post Book World. 
Gives more of an idea of the book than any other review so far 
almost to the extent of spoiler-dom. Also there was kind of a 
slam at certain younger folks (the reviewer must have been an old 
guy):"Still, I doubt that Mason & Dixon will attract the computer 
freaks, science fiction fans and Gen-Xers who look upon Gravity's 
Rainbow as a kind of modern Scripture (as little read, I suspect, 
as the ancient one). In truth, the novel will probably appeal most 
to the people who first celebrated Pynchon, the 60s generation 
that is now entering its own late middle age." 
     
                P.