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

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Yes, the quoted commenty is denigrating GR in comparison to SH5.  But the 
comment is not by Baldwin.  The comment is from an article by Balwin where 
he assembles Ammazon.com's readers' reviews.  All of the comments he 
collects are negative. Her's the link:

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/lone_star_statements.php

"Recently, Time magazine published a list of the 100 best novels. But the 
praise of professional critics hardly matters to the book-reviewing readers 
at Amazon.com. A compilation of the best of the worst… about the best.  The 
following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from 
Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some entries 
have been edited."

>From: Blake Stacey <blake.stacey at ens-lyon.fr>
>>
>>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."
>>
>
>From the order of the items, I'd have to say Mr. Baldwin implies that 
>Vonnegut, the chain-smoker, is the one who created the Olympic sprinter, 
>while  Pynchon is the one who gave us the junk-food addict.

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