Book Description

[jd]

Somewhere in space, Hacker Mothra laughs evilly...

On 7/17/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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