get over the blurb already

[richard baillie]

unless the new effort is better than GR...

...but is there anyone out there who really think sit will be?




On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:55:27 +0200, "Bjorn" <disgruntled at nerdshack.com>
said:
> Thanks for that. If GR is the holy scripture, everything Pynchon'll ever
> write MUST necessarily be a disappointment. It's been 33 years! Let
> the man progress (insert Vineland bashing here)
> 
> 
> Am 20.07.2006 um 16:03 schrieb Monte Davis:
> 
> >
> > Get over GR already. Should TRP have retreated into Perfected  
> > Master silence
> > in 1973, or rewritten your favorite book again and again?
> >
> > GR is a very great book indeed, and benefits from what may be a
> > once-in-a-lifetime resonance of the author's and the culture's take on
> > paranoid "explanation." But IMO Vineland and M&D both show advances  
> > away
> > from V's and GR's whiff of Baedeker --in converting research into  
> > [what
> > feels like] lived experience.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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