get over the blurb already

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/20/2006 12:02:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
john.keiller at gmail.com writes:

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




Well said...for my own part - though I was admittedly disappointed by both  
Vineland and M&D - I'll predict (very possibly incorrectly) that this new  work 
will be (for my tastes, anyway) somewhat better than those 2 but not quite  
up to the golden standard set by GR. 
 
Does anyone think that it's possible that someone other than TRP posted the  
blurb but that it's accurate nonetheless, e.g., that it might have been 
someone  "on the inside" who got a sneak peek at the book, or at least had a 
conversation  w. either the author or one of the top editors/publishers who knew of 
the  contents?!
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