[David Casseres]

That's weird, I would have said the cartoonishness of the characters
was at its height in GR.  Less in Vineland, and much less in M&D
(which you've never actually read).

On 11/1/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> << David Morris, a few back this morning. Should had noted that beside the
> quote. There are cartoons in Pynchon, sure: he's the world's biggest road-runner
> fan, what did you expect? >>
>
> But this is the point, and P's continued use of cartoonishness is one of the
> things that is disappointing about his novels after GR.  Do you really want
> the "greatest writer in the English language" to give you what you expect?
> Isn't that what Elmore Leonard's for?
>