And The National Book Award

[John Pendergast]

I'm having a totally different experience with the book -- it is the first book in years I put down vowing to never return to. I realize now that I might have been too quick (I was reading it on a long train ride, using it as an excuse not to work on a more pressing revision project).  It seemed to be exclusively plot-driven - there was little or no artistry to the language and the main character seemed, well, flat. And if it's going where I think it's going, as a parody of popular science writing, then it's really predictable. 

I also started reading it at the same time I was finishing Dylan's Chronicles, which I was prepared to dislike, but liked immensely, namely because it was none to the things I suggested about Power's book.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lary Wallace 
  To: Ya Sam ; pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:02 AM
  Subject: Re: And The National Book Award


  Has anyone had a chance to check out _The Echo Maker_? I'm only on page 60-something or something, but this is a terrific book. Much better than the previous Powers, the ponderous and tedious _The Time of Our Singing_. 


  Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
    goes to ........

    'The Echo Maker'

    http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov16/0,4670,NationalBookAwards,00.html

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