They Is Idiots

[John Doe]

..and a very good thought as well...of course they
object to him on those grounds...but..there are plenty
who have complained of his charcters being "
two-dimensional" and even " totally unrealistic"...so
I would say my point still stands...it's not like I
made up a flaw ; this is the sort of thing critics
have mentioned and people I knew in classes said...

--- Meg Larson <megley1 at chartermi.net> wrote:

> Was tryin' real hard to stay out of this--my skin
> being highly 
> flame-sensitive--but:
> 
> 
> > Ok Mr. Master of the Ultra Specific Particularity
> ;
> > like you never speak broadly or make
> > genralizations...keep dreaming...when a person is
> a
> > detractor, it presumes he/she dislikes
> Pynchon...one
> > of the main "complaints" about him among them is
> his
> > "lack of feeling or sentiment"...so...if they come
> to
> > GR with that bias they will likely not grant the
> scene
> > in question any truly human emotional
> > "authenticity"
> 
> The foax I know that don't like Pynchon don't not
> like him because of his 
> "lack of feeling or sentiment" but simply because he
> is too hard to read. 
> In college courses where we read Pynch, par exemple
> _GR_, the chief 
> complaint was that it didn't make sense, the
> sentences were too long, and 
> they couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.
>  They didn't like 
> _COL49_ because Oed didn't find what she was looking
> for.  To put it another 
> way, they didn't have the patience or the discipline
> or attention span 
> required to "slog" through it.  These were/are
> children of the instant 
> gratification generation, children of the "just tell
> me what it means so I 
> don't have to bother" generation.  They didn't want
> to be bothered to use 
> their brains and decide for themselves what _GR_
> meant to them.  Their 
> criticisms of the book had nothing to do with
> feelings or sentiment on the 
> author's part but on their own lack thereof.  A-and
> the shit-eating scene 
> really put them off even reading further.
> Par l'autre main, they liked _Vineland_ because it
> was readily accessible to 
> them, because they could identify with the themes of
> music, tv, movies, etc. 
> They envisioned Takeshi as George Takei.
> 
> Just a thought,
> M.
> 
> 
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