Best novel of the quarter century

[loathsome toad]

> I think VL is a disappointment.  It is a tease which never
> delivers.  It is 
> worth reading only because it repeats in new forms some of his
> continuing 
> concerns, but it is all shorthand.  It never really gets off the
> ground.
>

Disagree. I liked it and saw it more as an attempt to
produce something a bit more "mainstream". It certainly
has worked as an easy intro to Pynchon for some people
that I know. Vineland also seemed to have a bit of Ken 
Kesey to it, but that is just my uninformed opinion. It 
certainly is not his best, but it is not a disappointment
by any stretch either.

grey raining,

bill2


"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." ___ W. S. B.

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