Beware the Time.com review

[Bryan Snyder]

Thanks for the warning... I ruined my Infinite Jest experience by submitting
to my weakness and reading the reviews (isn't that IRONIC MR. WALLACE?!?!?!)
so I'm avoiding all mentions of ATD.... (and I avoided all online material
pertaining to Gravity's Rainbow, only got the companion and looked up names,
places, dates and companies on the internet to get a better understanding).
Personally, I think it's so bunk that reviewers give away any plot details;
one CAN be vague and still review a book.

Thanks again.
B

On 11/13/06, Jim Gilbert <posthorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Time review, just linked at The Modern Word, contains what, in most
> novel descriptions, you could call a pretty comprehensive plot analysis. In
> the case of Pynchon, what it breaks down to is that Lacayo reveals (spoils)
> the fates of a couple of the main characters. Now, when one sets out to read
> a 1,000 page novel, it's with the understanding that major events will be
> sloooowly spelled out--the stuff he spoils doesn't happen for several
> hundred pages in. So, that wasn't nice. Admittedly we're not reading Pynchon
> for the "plot," but we do all like surprises and I just thought some of you
> might like a warning.
>
> --J. Gilbert
>
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