Hitting Below the Mason -Dixon Line

[John Doe]

Sure, and being a rabid admirer of Pynchon's works I
can also see where others can find him tedious,
overblown,pretentious, etc....however, to do a
wholesale dismissal of his work the way Pekar does is
too irresponsible and too lazy;and yeah I can't
exactly argue that subtle but pithy dialogue is TRP's
strong suit...but it wasn't Joyce's or Faulkner's
either....it's always fun to try to show that the
emperor has no clothes, but Pekar is just Yankin' on
his pud a little too hard and fast with this one...I
love the Everyman approach as well; it's gritty,
punchy, redolant of wise bar-fly truisms about life,
blah blah blah, and I would be a hypocrite if I didn't
say it tends to refresh me these past years after
early on having overdosed on contrived French critical
theory, which I now find to be roughly 86%
bullshit,...but, that being said, I still find this
review, or evaluation, of M&D to be pathetically
trite.


--- Will Layman <WillLayman at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm just being the voice of reason here.  A LOT OF
> PEOPLE don't like
> Pynchon's writing.  MANY people think his novels are
> bloated, pointlessly
> complex and not that funny.  Smart people can
> disagree.
> 
> I happen to love Pynchon's work.  I adore it and
> love it and want to eat it
> for dinner.
> 
> But also dig Harvey, with his everyman, no-bullshit
> view of the world.  And,
> you know what?  His dialogue is a lot more realistic
> and nuanced than
> Pynchon's.
> 
> -- Will
> 
> On 10/7/05 5:43 PM, "Rcfchess at aol.com"
> <Rcfchess at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 10/07/2005 5:42:21 P.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > WillLayman at comcast.net writes:
> >> It goes without saying that I do not agree with
> Harvey.  But to be fair, that
> >> critique was written from the classic Pekar point
> of view and ‹ while I think
> >> it reaches the wrong conclusions at every turn ‹
> it should give us all a fair
> >> notion of how Pynchon is viewed by a "regular
> guy" reader, and a smart one at
> >> that.
> > How smart can he be if he thinks that ALL of TRP
> is crap?!?
> > 
> 
> 
> 



		
__________________________________ 
Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs