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[bob mccart]

I don't mean to start a flame war, but is anyone else incredibly disapointed
with Against the Day. I've read only to 120 because the interest just isn't
there. I've read everything else except Mason&Dixon, which from the little I
have read of it I expect to be very much like ATD. ATD moves to quickly.
Pynchon establishes no 'immediacy' of plot. Instead of setting, we have a
chronology. Events move to fast and are undeveloped. Pynchon seems to try to
ground the book in the 'now' with dialogue, which is often nothing more than
a one liner maybe followed up by a response. Whether the slang is accurate
or not, it's almost like Pynchon over the years has grown worse and worse at
writing dialogue. Some of short stories attempt different voices for
different people. I should say I love V, and Gravity's Rainbow is probably
my favorite book. In Vineland I was willing to accept what I saw as this new
style of his--mainly because it was so short and cohesive. But what the fuck
was he thinking with against the Day? What I really want is validation for
hating the book.
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