The Big One

[jd]

I certainly do consider Pynchon to be a "master".  Sure, he's written
book(s?) - I still haven't read M&D -  that might not be able to be
considered absolutely genius, but none (that I have read) are bad.
Maybe my comments on Vineland seem to indicate to you a sort of
spinelessness, but that's your own deal - I find it to be a pretty
honest assessment, myself.  Should Bellow not be considered a "master"
because he wrote a couple of stinkers (I certainly consider The Actual
to be one)?  While I found The Actual to be a stinker, I've not found
a Pynchon that could be classified as such, and I'm not about to say
that Bellow isn't a master of the written word.

On 8/8/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> << I'll speak for myself, thanks.>>
>
> Please do:
>
> <<Beyond that, I expect future critics to rave about all of Pynchon's works,
> instead of excepting this one or that one the way some contemporary readers
> do.>>
>
> Or --
>
> <some future critics will praise Pynchon's body of work as a whole, and that
> each of his novels will receive lots of positive praise and
>  scholarly attention, a blandly safe prediction considering the guy is
> already considered by some respected critics as the greatest living novelist writing
> in English ...>>
>
> Name them, if you don't mind.  I can't think of one.
>