Tim Ware on AtD

[David Morris]

On 11/7/06, Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> David Morris requests:
>
> I would like reviewers to let us know how they regard AtD relative to MD.
>
> So I ask:
> Why? I haven't read AtD, but is it somehow more deeply connected to MD than any of Pynchon's other works (for the record, I am extremely dubious of the theory that all of P's novels are part of one big novel)?  Why not compare it to Lot 49 or GR (or Moby Dick or The Da Vinci Code, for that matter)?  Or is it that MD is so bad that any comparison to it warrants disgust?  Just curious.

So I answer:
I want to know if he felt the same "again and again" desire to read
MD, because I didn't feel that way about it.  It was quite enjoyable,
but it didn't compel me to read it again as did GR.

> So I say:
> [snip] What motivates any "again and again" reading is the sense that there are depths in the text that the reader has left unplumbed.

So I answer:
Right.  And I ask again, did the reviewer feel that way about MD?