ATD: critical reception WAS Re: Beware the Time.com review

[rich]

from the reviews I've read and just speculating from that I'd say AtD is
probably not a good place to start for newbies

I wonder if Pynchon has been reading his Harry Keeler--AtD sounds alot like
Keeler's weird fictions

rich

On 11/14/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> If the review generates interest in the book and
> perhaps brings some new readers to Pynchon, what's the
> harm?  If a review is totally positive, people might
> tend to be skeptical, maybe it's a good thing for
> these reviewers to take a pot shot or two.
>
> Otherwise, people take these newspaper and magazine
> book reviews way too seriously, in my humble opinion,
> when they're not ignoring them totally, that is. Most
> are written by journalists just doing a job on
> deadline, looking for a way to get their copy past
> their editors with minimum hassle, I imagine.
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> > << so... at least is it a positive review? >>
> >
> > Yes, positive, but to no useful point.
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> Hard to accept that people might be excited about a
> Pynchon novel that's not Gravity's Rainbow, eh?
>
> That's the kind of bitterness that will eat a man
> alive, my friend. Cuidado.
>
> However Against the Day has turned out -- and early
> reports are that it is a fine book with the ability to
> fascinate and please die-hard Pynchon readers -- I
> have to admire Pynchon for pursuing his art with the
> integrity that he has shown during a long and
> distinguished career. At this point, I'm wishing him
> well, and will leave other sentiments to, well,
> others.
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> >http://pynchonoid.org
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