Is M&D as good as GR???

[the Robot Vegetable]

	There seems to be a Golden Age of Pynchon phenomenon happening. 
_GR_ is a great book, but it seems to have had more impact if you read it
when you were young.  It didn't provide me with any new insights into the
world (well, the Giant Adenoid was a new one for me) but then I didn't
read it until I was 40.  I was a fellow traveller, plenty paranoid on my
own, and had come to these opinions by paying attention.  _M&D_,
simalarly, reiterates points that other books and my experience in the
world had been telling me about.  Is it necessary for a novel to be
explosively eye-opening to be great?  This isn't the case for me, but I
can grant that it may be for others. 
	Given that, I will emulate the Red Queen and believe an
impossible thing.  _The Recognitions_ did open my eyes to some things,
although I have been considering many issues surrounding belief, art,
originality and the art of forgery for most of my life.  I consider
this the best book I have read.

  veg