Book Description

[Dave Monroe]

I'd say, descriptive, intriguing even, without giving
away all too much, which is what a dustjacket
description/press relesae/whatever ought to be,
coupled with good-naturedly self-effacing, which one
learns to appreciate from yr authorial types ...

And I think that the description was pulled is, again,
a sign that amazon jumped the gun, not that either
Pynchon or even his publisher is in particular cahoots
with them.  Keep in mind, if there are going to be
publication week reviews in yr major media outlets
(both Penguin and Pynchon being, along with amazon,
B&N, yr neighborhood indie shop, et al., primariuly in
the business of, well, selling books), esp. of a nigh
unto thousand page magnum opus from a Major Literary
Figure, Perennial Nobel Prize Nominee, and occasional
Bestselling Author, even, those review copies are
going to be on their way in the even less-too-distant
future (M&D was in Certain Hands months ahead of time,
as I recall).  One would suspect that a blurb of this
sort would at least be coeval with that, if not
preceed it Baptist style ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Banal and slightly pompous, yes....

But I like him, too.  Not nearly so well as I do 
Pynchon, but ...

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