Atd Newsweek Review Pt. II

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Part 2 of  Malcolm Jones excellent slow-mo commentary on AtD:

"Which, to get back to what I started with, is what makes Pynchon fun. Yes, he’s difficult. There are whole pages of this novel that I just bounce right off without a clue about what’s going on. Usually, though, that’s my fault. I’m reading too fast. The key to this enormous story is to go slow, which is not, I know, what you want to hear about a novel that’s over 1,000 pages long. But when you go slow, it opens up beautifully, and then it’s fun, and fun is always what redeemed those Difficult Writers I used to love so much. Rush it and you’ll get impatient and throw the book across the room and kill the cat."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15841357/site/newsweek/