DFW on NPR

[Stefan Schuber]

FWIW, I too finished _IJ_ this spring after fitful reading during the 
winter. When I finished the book I found myself returning to certain 
vivid scenes and situations, but I also found myself saying "so what?" 
DFW certainly is clever in a cutsey "look-at-me" kind of way, but he 
lacks the depth and breadth of the P-man.

'Nother way of coming at this is Pynchon, however you say his name, is 
going to keep your gray matter stirred up for considerably longer 
page-per-page and sentence-per-sentence than Mr. DFW. Feeling I get after 
finishing _IJ_ is that the author didn't take the time to think out his 
book; after finishing _GR_ I can neither stop thinking nor stop intuiting 
that *something* is going on just beyond the extent of my awareness.

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