Coover

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/27/2002 4:17:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:


> <<...is he completely off base?)>>
> 
> Well, like I said, Coover's novels are a varied lot.  I think he's off-base 
> because he's so dismissive.  I think one will find him more or less 
> off-base, depending on what you think of Coover or the other writers 
> mentioned.  I don't find the writers he refers to as described.


> Like, which of his works you liked best, and maybe why...   And, since this 
> is the P-list, how you thought he compared to Pynchon (which was also why I 
> included the quote).

I like The Public Burning best.  I also think it's the novel of his most 
similar to Pynchon's, similarly rich, dense, audacious, funny, and quite 
serious.  Every other chapter is narrated by Uncle Sam, every other by 
Richard Nixon.  The Nixon stuff is truly wonderful, but it's all pretty 
terrific.  (It's about the Rosenbergs.)  If by "compare" you mean rate them, 
I'd say The Public Burning is better than V, which is probably the novel of 
Pynchon's most similar to it.

> <<As opposed to *Ghost Town*?>>

You'll have to ask Richard Romeo.  I haven't read Ghost Town.



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