atd dissapointment

[Ya Sam]

I would say that you are disappointed with the first 120 pages. In order to 
be disappointed with the whole book you have to read it, no choice. I also 
found it a hard going, taking into account the fact that some of the 
language is pretty difficult to me, but now I'm totally hooked. Some 
episodes are just gorgeous, the best stuff on the par with GR.


>From: "bob mccart" <lebishar at gmail.com>
>To: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: atd dissapointment
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:23:21 -0500
>
>I don't mean to start a flame war, but is anyone else incredibly 
>disapointed
>with Against the Day. I've read only to 120 because the interest just isn't
>there. I've read everything else except Mason&Dixon, which from the little 
>I
>have read of it I expect to be very much like ATD. ATD moves to quickly.
>Pynchon establishes no 'immediacy' of plot. Instead of setting, we have a
>chronology. Events move to fast and are undeveloped. Pynchon seems to try 
>to
>ground the book in the 'now' with dialogue, which is often nothing more 
>than
>a one liner maybe followed up by a response. Whether the slang is accurate
>or not, it's almost like Pynchon over the years has grown worse and worse 
>at
>writing dialogue. Some of short stories attempt different voices for
>different people. I should say I love V, and Gravity's Rainbow is probably
>my favorite book. In Vineland I was willing to accept what I saw as this 
>new
>style of his--mainly because it was so short and cohesive. But what the 
>fuck
>was he thinking with against the Day? What I really want is validation for
>hating the book.

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