The Big One

[David Casseres]

On 8/8/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'll speak for myself, thanks.
>
> I do believe that 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, and considering the library of
> books that have already been published about his
> novels so far.

Against the Day is an overwhelming masterpiece, but the next one is
shit and the one after that an embarrassing work of senility.