Vineland mediocre????

calbert at hslboxmaster.com calbert at hslboxmaster.com
Thu Jul 4 08:22:41 CDT 2002



"MalignD wrote that Vineland is a mediocre book."

I take major exception to that.  It is probably the most unappreciated
book in the Pynchon cannon and that, if for no ther reason, should make
it the next book under the microscope."


I think COL49 rates that distinction......an opinion with which MalignD is not in agreement............  

"If people want to read Merman Helville, let them start or join a
melville-l."

Have you considered that MalignD may, in fact, say so because he holds Pynchon to extraordinarily high standards, and is not shy about flexing his remarkably well informed lit chops to keep Pynchon's nose to the stone, or his worshippers (and I am  perhaps the most unapologetic) from deteriorating into some kind of embossed Brittney cult?


love,
cfa

"SAVE THE CONTRARIANS!"




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