Kirn's Slate review

[Crowell,Sean [CIS]]

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>>Well, Kirn admits he's not a fan, so 'twould be surprising if he did love
>>M&D.
>>Actually, his review (you can find it at
>>http://www.slate.com/BookReview/97-05-06/BookReview.asp) is well-written,
>>humorous and refreshingly subjective (I also happen to be a fan of Kirn's
>>fiction-- "My Hard Bargain" is a wonderful collection of stories).  What I
>>do
>>find odd given his distaste for TP's intellectual "games" is that he wrote
>>an
>>absolute rave review of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest in New York
>>Magazine a while back.  Jest is certainly a novel that I'd rcommend to any
>>fan
>>of Pynchon's (I'm new to the list; I assume that book has been discussed
>>here), a book that owes a great debt to TP.
>>
>>Oh well, go figure...
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>	While "Infinite Jest" was certainly Pynchonian in its scope,
>length, and lack of a resolved concrete plotline, it was written in a
>very straightforward manner with little of TP's elliptical prose
>stylings.
>It *was* a real bitch to hold your place while reading those damn
>footnotes, though! :-)
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>>					Sean
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