Another apriori bashing of AtD

[Ya Sam]

Why be proud that you won't be able to read?

"You can read it or you can weigh it. My guess is that most people will opt 
for the latter." ...

"But even if I did get Pynchon, I reckon I would baulk at the 1,000 plus 
pages. Very few of the books I've read wouldn't have benefited from some 
good editing - and a great many of them could have been usefully cut by a 
third. And it's almost axiomatic that any book of more than 1,000 pages will 
have more than its fair share of dreary bits. This, I'm sure, is heresy in 
many quarters; critics will argue that the languor and cadences are an 
integral part of the artistic whole. But you don't have to look hard in 
Dickens or Proust to find bits that can't usefully be cut.

So, the copy of Against the Day that the publishers kindly sent me will 
remain unread on my desk. It's too long and my life is too short. But it 
will be ostentatiously placed on my desk. Even I can recognise a book that 
will make me look clever by association and I'm not going to look a gift 
horse. And nor, no doubt, will the thousands of others this Xmas. Those who 
buy it will feel pleasantly superior while those who receive it will be 
mildly flattered. Everyone's a winner - apart from the forest that was 
pulped to create a book that almost no one finishes."

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_crace/2006/11/gravitys_author_just_got_heavi.html

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