get over the blurb already

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:59 AM, john keiller wrote:

> 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


I know we all play here at being extreme-case pyncho-maniacs

But no matter what happens, as Rick says we'll always have Paris

>
> 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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