Re. Brown: A Pynchon for the nineties

[John Carvill]

Don't really want to start up the old Vineland debate(s) yet again....

>Vineland received mixed reviews: on the positive side, many were glad
to >have him back; on the negative side, some accused him of lowering
his >standards and pandering to television addicts and the swiftly
burgeoning >nostalgia for the fashions,,issues and energy of late 1960s
America. [...]

...but: how could Pynchon be "pandering to television addicts" just by
writing a book with a lot of TV references in it? Would the TV addicts
ever get to enjoy the pandering? Wouldn't they have to read the book to
find out how much TV was in it? 








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