Time's 100 best English-language novels (1923 - present)

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In a message dated 10/23/2005 11:50:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jkyllo at gmail.com writes:

Gravity's Rainbow  (1973)

Author: Thomas Pynchon

"When one contrasts  Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it's like 
comparing an  Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a 
hot dog in one  hand and a soda in the other." 





It appears to me that this excerpt from _The  Morning News - Lone Star 
Statements, by Matthew Baldwin_ 
(http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/lone_star_statements.php)  is referring to  GR as the "obese man [etc.]" rather 
than what I would think (though I kind of  like Vonnegut, limitedly), i.e., the 
other way around...?! What do you guys  think? Which one is the author of the 
quote - whoever he/she is - favoring? (I  know, it could be either...)
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