get over the blurb already

[jd]

I don't think any book could supplant GR's place in my heart, but I am
definitely hopeful that this one will rival it.  It sounds like it
certainly has a chance, in a way that M&D and Vineland (though I guess
I can't say much about M&D as I've not gotten through it yet - soon -
but since we're working from a vague description here I'll say it's
valid, too) did not (at least for me).

On 7/20/06, richard baillie <richbaillie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> unless the new effort is better than GR...
>
> ...but is there anyone out there who really think sit will be?
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> 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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