Coover
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 27 19:59:47 CST 2002
>From: MalignD at aol.com>
>fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:
>>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.
By "compare" I meant anything you'd like to offer, since I'm without any
personal reference to Coover. Generalities were really intended, but
generalities are so misleading. I guess in the gutter sense I would ask
about "flavor," the ultimate sense in the vagaries of taste.
Thank You,
David Morris
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