ATD: NO SPOILERS NO PAGE # Re: Rocketmen and Wastelands

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 7:30 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

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> <<FYI, I have read at least 50 more pages of Against the Day than  
> you have, look forward to finishing the novel, expect Pynchon fans  
> and critics will love it, it will stay on the bestsellr list for a  
> while then turn up remaindered in bookstores  everywhere at  
> somefuture moment; I predict that theorists will write about it for  
> the next 25 years at minimum as they come to appreciate its depths  
> and intricacies ...>>
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> Listen to yourself:  you've read fifty pages.  FIFTY pages.
>
> And tell me what is misanthropic and destructive about waiting  
> actually to read a book before  commenting on it -- let alone  
> exalting it?
>
> I've read GR times.  This book is not GR.  it's what it is.  And  
> you're what you are.  an asshole and an idiot.


and no doubt under the influence of the family lawyer who advised a  
fully orchestrated media blitz to sway prospective jurors before the  
case actually goes to trial and hopefully get an oprah recommendation.


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