On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 MalignD at aol.com wrote: > I agree with you about Vineland, but, Jesus, you don't think GR is worth > reading? At least it has good characters, storyline and a certain level of paranoia without which Pynchon descends to mere good writing and would only be fighting the American fascist nightmare with DL's superheroics and a fretless guitar. P.