NY Times Sunday Book Review

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Jeff Smithpeters wrote:

> >On Mon, 12 May 1997, Ken Jones wrote:
> >
> >> "Pynchon I like, but he is sort of an endless virtuoso. It's like listening
> >> to 20 hours  of Paganini. One would be plenty."

I babbled:
> >	This reminds me of a friend's comment on the band U2 after
> >Joshua Tree came out.   He said he didn't like them because they
> >were "Too Good."   

> If anything like "too good" was meant, I think Bellow would have chosen
> Beethoven or Mozart over Paganini.  If you want to play rock analogies, it
> would be more like listening to 20 hours of Eddie Van Halen.

	Surely more like listening to Zappa or Capt. Beefheart!
	(and thank you for returning my misplaced attribution.)

	veg