Reviews

[rich]

me, too--

maybe we can answer better the question after I've read it.

Menand reviewed the book in the New Yorker so he won't do the NYRB review I
think.  I would guess John Leonard.

rich

On 11/20/06, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
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> I haven't bought the book yet, but I like reading reviews, don't worry
> about spoliers.
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> However the negative reviews ask the reasonable question, or seem to
> have had the similar response of, what's the point of it all?  How do
> its many strewn parts connect and create a coherent novel (concluding
> that they don't)?  A fair question, I should think.  Whereas none of
> the positive reviews are able to construct a point, or suggest one;
> rather, there are a lot of comments along the lines of "Pynchon fans
> wlil love it."
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