Sloth and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

Pale Fire is a fine, fun book, too.

So is Tristram Shandy, perhaps even funnier, imo, with an equally deep but
more sympathetic (also imo) view into human foibles.  Sterne seems to
genuinely love the people he writes about, in a way that makes me feel good
to read, even as he lets his readers laugh deeply at what they do; I don't
get the feeling he's laughing at his characters, even the most foolish.
Knowing that he died before he could finish makes it all the more poignant,
but then I'm a reader who likes to know about the author, too, instead of
handling the text with rubber gloves.