read and going to read

[Malignd]

<<I'm never that spooked out by DFW like Delillo or
Pynchon. He's like Gaddis, more of a satirist, though,
IMHO, DFW doesn't have the skill at making coherent
structures to his novels (IJ is like Beckett--some
gold 
nuggets but lots of fruitless prospectin).  IJ showed
a heck've a lot of range--more so than any current
younger 
than 50 crop--(as did the story collection Girl with
Curious Hair) but everything post-IJ has been, IMHO,
mediocre (too much self-conscious mind fuckery)>>

Pretty much agree.  Read IJ, skip the rest.

But Beckett fruitless prospecting??  Gees, man.


		
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