The Big One

[pynchonoid]

Just because one ignoramus on Pynchon-L can't accept
any Pynchon novel except GR, means precisely nothing
at all in the bigger scheme of the reception of
Pynchon's works. 

The group reading of Vineland that took place here a
few years ago demonstrated beyond any possibility of
doubt, that this novel is layered and subtle in ways
that don't become apparent without study - so, not
only is it fun to read for what it has to add to the
conversation about the 60s, fun Tube stuff, & etc.,
Vineland also repays close reading.  So, it comes as
no surprise when people read it, keeping their mind
open to the possibility that it might be good on its
on terms if not when compared with GR, and discover
they enjoy the process.  No question that it's of a
piece with the rest of Pynchon's work. Likewise with
M&D, which has been read and discussed in great detail
at least twice now here. Personally I think it's
insulting to the author not to at least give a book
that he worked on for so many years at least the
benefit of the doubt, and to read it before slamming
it, but that's the modus operandi of this particular
fakename discussant.

Another prediction:  A Grown Man Who Calls Himself
Malign won't read ATD, and won't stop insulting it and
anybody who praises it, not ever. Just as he clearly
hasn't read M&D, and hasn't stopped insulting it and
the people who like it, for nearly a decade now on
Pynchon-L.


--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> I'm not saying the novel will be the masterstroke of
> the man's career (though I am very intrigued by the
> slice of time where the novel will be operating).
> I'm saying it has the potential to be the
> masterstroke.  [...] 

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