Lovecraft/Pynchon digression

Richard Romeo r.romeo at atlanticphilanthropies.org
Tue Dec 28 15:47:14 CST 2004


McElroy is a very difficult writer no doubt but I did finally finish
Lookout Cartridge-in some ways this novel, in its yo-yoing back and
forth between the US and England, among other places, is really the
epitome of the hated term , "paranoid novel"-nothing like it in my mind:
at least one example I can say refutes the idea that all plots veer
deathwards.

One of those books where you are truly learning everything along with
the narrator-suppose why mcelroy frustrates for some-you don't get a
good idea what's going on until you dig deeper and deeper into his
books. 

 

And better yet, great for re-reading-I only hope some of his other
novels are put back into print like Hinds Kidnap

 

Richard 

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To Richard Romeo:

Seem to remember you were reading Lookout Cartridge.

I started it, stopped, and am reading it again now.  After that false
start, I find I'm liking it quite a bit, about one hundred pages in.

Wonder what you thought ...

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