ATD-general spoilerish impressions - p. 623 (WAS: p. 429)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: kelber at mindspring.com
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>Just finished the Iceland Spar section (got the book on the 17th, thanks to 
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>Round about in the 200's-300's, I was feeling a little worried:  the book 
>was beginning to seem >like USA (Dos Passos) or even Ragtime (Doctorow) on 
>acid.  The lack of a clear protagonist was >bothersome.  By the end of this 
>section, it suddenly snapped into focus.

Frankly, I was also a bit worried in the 200's-300's: the prairie drama just 
went on and on without any clear development. Around page 480, though, the 
novel has really taken off for me: this is the point in the novel where the 
main action moves to Europe, and - as is the case in e.g. V. and GR - Europe 
proves to be a much more fertile ground for Pynchon's imagination than 
America. Pynchon simply writes better about Europe than about USA, IMO, 
perhaps because it is more remote for him and involves a larger degree of 
imagination. Anyway, since coming to Europe, the novel has been absolutely 
fabulous: easily Pynchon's best writing since GR, I feel. I am certainly not 
worried anymore - I just hope the rest of the novel can live up to the very 
high standard set in these past 150 pages.

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