MMM / thanks! / NP TR and DFW

[rich]

I guess my marker for a great novel is if you'd want to read it again and
again
I've tried with IJ--can't get thru a 2nd time it again as I have w/ GR on
more than one occasion.
i've also burned my way out of Gaddis as well and delillo (those most
closely linked with Pynchon)

rich


On 3/12/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I may have loved GR and the Recognitions but I do not like Infinite
> Jest at all (not that liking GR or R would indicate liking IJ, just a
> way to say, yeah, I like long books and that's not why I didn't like
> this one).  I don't like the footnotes (which would have been much
> better at the bottom of the page than the back of the book - after you
> flip back to see a one-line reference to a book or movie that doesn't
> exist you just stop caring about the few footnotes that actually add
> to the story - and indeed should really be a part of the text as
> opposed to a footnote), and I don't like how it just seems to be
> generally self-impressed.  Which stinks because the good parts are
> definitely good, it's just that as an overall piece I think it's
> lacking.
>
>
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