NY Times Sunday Book Review

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

     If I were picking a Top Three at this point (having only skimmed _TNY_ 
     and not checked out the Sun-Times):
     
     1. Michael Dirda in The Washington Post. Best overview for both 
     relating the sense of the humor in the book, as well as puts the work 
     in perspective of Pynchon's career.
     
     2. Ted Mooney in the L.A. Times.  Best overview of the book in context 
     of Pynchon's career; lacks humor (or notice of such) or could be a 
     favorite.
     
     3.  David Marc Fischer in Chicago's "New City" pub.  Not only 
     (relatively) local to Ann Arbor, but has the best overview of the 
     sources of the book itself.
     
     Would be happy with either of the first two as "the only"; wouldn't 
     feel shorted as a reader if the third were used.


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Subject: Re: NY Times Sunday Book Review
Author:  doktor at primenet.com at dbnaccip
Date:    5/12/97 4:59 PM


Boyle's review is respectful, but breaks no new ground.  I, too, wish that 
the New York Times had chosen someone else to review M&D.  Pynchon deserves 
Updike, Bellow, Oates, Didion or Roth.
     
Shaman Drum Bookstore in Ann Arbor has asked me to recommend one review of 
M&D for them to put on their website.  I'll let them worry about the 
copyright issues, but let me take a poll here: if you could recommend _just 
one_ review of M&D, which would it be?  (Providing URL of your 
recommendations would be much appreciated.
     
--Jimmy