Pynchon/Vollmann

[gp]

oh, and to stick up for kyle - pynchonoid, I assume the flaming you
saw was the "rabid fanboyism" comment (because I think we can agree
that there are individuals who are at times misguided on the P-L as
well as in the reviewing world) - it seems he was simply acknowledging
the root of the issue as far as why Vollmann or Pynchon fans might
clash / disagree, and I doubt that it was meant as an insult.  I'm not
going to name specifics that have occurred in the past for the sake of
not re-sparking the arguments during which they popped up and / or
generally annoying any who may have been involved - regardless of
whether or not I agree with them I'm not generally a fan of flamewars.
 How's that for nuance! ;)

On 11/22/06, gp <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Europe Central is winning me back to Vollmann, but I think there's
> still a good deal of excess material, or perhaps better put, the right
> amount of material that is sometimes excessively written about - i.e.
> he comes up with an interesting concept and then goes on with it for
> ten pages, but by page two or three I've got the point and the rest
> seems like a sort of repetition.  It is infinitely better than The
> Royal Family, however.  I'm only around 200 pages in though, and
> considering that there's, er, a certain looming 900 pages to go of
> AtD, I think it's going to have to wait.
>
> On 11/22/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Vollmann's "Europe Central" was the best novel I've read this year,
> > along with David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas."
> >
> > I don't care for influences, but from a literary point of view
> > Vollmann's novel is a very valuable addition to GR in writing about
> > WW-2 and totalitarianism.
> >
>