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Or, maybe, he's got some kinda of evil streak
and deliberately undermined the entertainment 
machine by making sure it slithered into the book 
market right before Christmas, just rammed down
the poor reviewers throats with scarcely a minute 
to spare, guaranteeing some truly awful reviews. 
Reminds me of the exploding binding used on
those first QP editions of GR.
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From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Thanks for this insider info. The poor reviewers do indeed seem to've been 
> working under unreasonable constraints with AtD. Penguin Press and Pynchon 
> must certainly have known that the short deadlines would affect the quality 
> of the reviews, and I can't imagine that Pynchon is entirely happy with the 
> situation. Some may claim that "Rocketman is above all that shit", but 
> still: If I'd spent god knows how many years writing a novel like AtD, I 
> would certainly prefer it if the novel got a fair and well-considered 
> treatment by the reviewers, and I suspect that Pynchon is human enough to be 
> hurt - or at least annoyed - by the shallow and rushed thrashing he received 
> from many quarters.
> 
> 
> >From: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> 
> >I work in publishing circles and learned this about ATD:. The galleys which
> >reviewers get to read were much later to them than for any other Pynchon
> >novel, it seems. Around a month or so before pub date and it is the longest
> >novel as is known. Most galleys go to potential reviewers at least 3 months
> >ahead of pub date, often more for "long lead' vehicles for important books.
> 
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