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[Ted Samsel]

Before all this collective re-read... I read all of TRP from June '95
to '96..... I still find _V_ a wonderful book perhaps because of it's
obscurantism.. but I like to read huge Latin American novels reeking
with obscurantism. And VINELAND was quite a bit better on the second
go round...

A talley..
_V_ Iv'e read it 4 times
COL49  ........  5 times
GR ............  4 times

And as for obscurantism.... as Pierre Menard (AUTHOR OF THE TRUE
QUIXOTE) said:

"ambiguity is richness".

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1997* Centennial of Bram Stoker's DRACULA
         "Home of the brave, land of the free,
          I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgoisie."
AAFOUF# 0000003                           Huddie Ledbetter