V, CL49, GR, VL, MD

[Richard Romeo]

Alas, that seems so but I figure Mr P. is giving some writers affiliated with his wife a break

I would say maybe Mao2 is the best of the bunch though I think of that book in this day and age like I think of On the Road
Unreadable today

p.s. I highly recommend John Gimlette's travelogue At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, about Paraguay. Just finished it--nazis, cannibals, dictators, brutal wars, genocide, and much more...Gimlette's accentuates the absurdity, so it's not a slog for the reader

Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mike Beiderbecke
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 4:15 PM
To: trp
Subject: Re: V, CL49, GR, VL, MD

So,
    I've been trying to read the books that Pynchoid has been blurbing.
   They suck. The latest is Goines. Unreadable. Very few junkies can write.
Wait, make that no junkies can write. No, not even William Burroughs.
    He doesn't read. He reads reviews.
    Duh.

    Regards.



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