get over the blurb already

[john keiller]

It's a problem of expectation .. with every release the hope is that it will
be better than the last ... and every time, one ends up disappointed. I
don't think there is mileage in thinking/hoping that maybe then next one
will somehow manage to creep out from GR's eclipsing shadow ... it will
merely be what it is.
I try to read any book, not just pynchon's, without comparison to what has
come before and attempt to judge it, perhaps in vain, by its own merits and
not those inherited from another.

John K

On 20/07/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > --
> >   richard baillie
> >   richbaillie at fastmail.fm
> >
> > --
> > http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different…
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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