Tom LeClair reviews AtD in Bookforum

[Will Layman]

As someone who whacked on MalignD for being so negative a few days  
ago, I've got to defend Mr. LeClair right not to like AtD and still  
be respected.  LeClair has written brilliant stuff about Pynchon (GR  
in particular) and probably knows Pynchon inside-out better than all  
but the most dedicated of us.

Give the guy a break: he didn't like it.  It is allowed.

-- Will Layman

On Nov 24, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> http://www.bookforum.net/leclair.html
>
> ....and he is not exactly pleased.
>
> BTW, I thought Tom LeClair knew his Pynchon. He claims in the  
> review that "Gravity's Rainbow is the most important novel I've  
> ever read", but apparently he hasn't bothered to read Vineland.  
> Otherwise, how explain this: "Although Against the Day reuses only  
> one Pynchon character name I recognize, O. I. C. Bodine, a seaman,  
> it redeploys numerous types, situations, and references from  
> earlier Pynchon novels." What about those Traverses, eh?
>
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