Action, Jackson!

Spencer T. Campbell spencer.t.campbell2 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 19:11:11 CDT 2006


I should add that  I *am* amazed someone so young could've pulled off
V.  In that respect, it's incredible all the way through.  Excepting
that little miracle of extradiegetic context, though, I think it
suffers when compared to Pynchon's other work.

On 8/15/06, Spencer T. Campbell <spencer.t.campbell2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mondagen's Story is breathtaking.  I dig the nose job.  Long stretches
> of that book are pure genius.  But I also feel that long stretches are
> fairly sloppy and a weird mix of under-/overwritten when compared to
> his later work.  A lot of it reads like skimmed Gaddis, ca. The
> Recognitions.
>
> I've only read it once, though, and maybe I'll be differently moved on
> a second go.  As of now it's my least favorite of all Pynchon's output
> ('cept Slow Learner).  I'd still rank V above a lot of post-WWII
> American literature, but I'll re-read Vineland before V.
>
>
> On 8/15/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Mondaugen's Story  is a masterpiece in its own right. I still can't believe
> > that a guy in his 20s pulled it off.
> >
> >
> > >From: Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net>
> > >To: jd <wescac at gmail.com>
> > >CC: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>,        "Steve Maas"
> > ><tyronemullet at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
> > >Subject: Re: Action, Jackson!
> > >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:15:31 -0400
> > >
> > >       Me three.  V is the most clearly bi-furcated of his works, the two
> > >strands, seemingly separate, braiding together gradually into the one
> > >thing.  I miss the more sonorous tone he struck in that first book's
> > >Stencillian chps.  It's still present in GR, but the clownish,  satirical
> > >side of him has dominated his work since.
> > >
> > >       Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >On Aug 14, 2006, at 5:02 PM, jd wrote:
> > >
> > >>I, too, am of the opinion that V is second only to GR in the Pynchon
> > >>books, for what it's worth...
> > >>
> > >
> >
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