Have finished, but will never be done with M&D (was M&D yea/boo)

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

At 19:01 17/07/97 -0800, you wrote:
>At 9:14 PM 7/17/97, MantaRay at aol.com wrote:

>(...)GR is still way ahead, as is Lot 49 and V. Only not having read
>>Vineland keeps me from saying it's his worst so far.
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>D O U G  M I L L I S O N wrote:

>I have to agree with those who've said that M & D gets richer the more you
look into it(...)
, M & D seems to me as audacious and brash as GR, larger in scope,
>with prose that sings and growls and scats. The Great American Novel?  Why
>not.
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I think M&D is  great.  I don't see any point in comparing it to
Gravity's Rainbow because they are so very different. I enjoy Pynchon's 
embarrassment of riches and I'm glad I don't have to choose.
 
Didn't Harold Bloom say that Falkner and Pynchon were the only 20th
century American novelists to have written more than one masterpiece?
His favourite Pynchon novel is not, by the way, Gravity's Rainbow--although
I believe he considers it Pynchon's most impressive achievement.
Eric Alan Weinstein
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk