Slate-d

[Otto]

There is no accounting for taste.

But I love that "bad writing" comment!

Matthew Ryan wrote:
>  From the article's comments section:
>  
> */Subject:/* 	/Pynchons legions of fans?/
> */From:/* 	/danielmartinx/
> */Date:/* 	/Jul 19 2006 4:16PM /
> 
> 
> /"Last month, lit-bloggers and news-writers reported that Penguin Press 
> would issue the author's sixth novel in December. This whetted the 
> palates of those hard-core fans who have spent the years since 1997's 
> Mason & Dixon speculating that Pynchon was at work on a doozy ..."
> 
> All three of those fans? Maybe four?
> 
> Pynchon's first books were interesting and pleased the university crowd 
> enough to be taught repeatedly over the decades, but the university 
> crowd has turned its back on him. As well they should. His "complexity" 
> is just bad writing -- unclear, unrevised, pointless. Please don't 
> burden us with his celebrity, O Slate. Please free us from being tied to 
> a has-been who virtually never-was. /
> 

	

	
		
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