Pynchonesque Rushdie

[bekah]

At 11:32 AM +0200 10/10/06, Otto wrote:
>Both Rushdie and Eco should've written less books.
>
>I loved "The Name of the Rose", "The Satanic Verses" and "Midnight's
>Children", "Baudolino" and "The Moor's Last Sigh" were ok.
>
>But "Foucaults Pendulum" and "The Ground Beneath Their Feet" simply bored me.



I appreciate both Eco and Rushdie but I don't love everything either 
one has written!   Both have written some masterpieces and both have 
written some real duds.   Eco started high and slid ever since while 
Rushdie is just pure-d   erratic in quality.

I loved The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum and have been 
luke-warm about everything Eco has written since.  (He has one theme 
forever -  memory and signs - semiotics).

I loved Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children but Fury 
and The Ground Beneath Her Feet were foolishness.

But then even DeLillo has not been consistently great;  only Pynchon 
is ever unerringly flawless.  (lol)

Bekah