Contemporary Fiction
Dustin Iler
osirx277 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 14 23:05:03 CDT 2006
Among other things initial reviewers didn't read the whole book (which
actually occurs in the novel) and subsequent reviewers plagiarized the
initial reviewers. Jack Green does a great job of tracing all of this and
defending <The Recognitions>.
>From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>To: wescac at gmail.com, fqmorris at gmail.com
>CC: MalignD at aol.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: The Empty Page Project
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:10:24 +0300
>
>Did anyone read this book about the initial critical reception of The
>Recognitions, 'Fire the Bastards' if my memory serves me right? What did go
>awry with the critics at the time?
>
>
>>From: jd <wescac at gmail.com>
>>To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>CC: "MalignD at aol.com" <MalignD at aol.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: The Empty Page Project
>>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:00:59 -0400
>>
>>DM: I reccomend you do... the first time I read it was a little lost
>>/ annoyed at the characters too, but second time around it really got
>>me.
>>
>>www.williamgaddis.org - the "reader's guide" in whole is on that site,
>>as well as a bunch of other nifty gaddis stuff.
>>
>>On 9/14/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On 9/14/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
>>> > << Never read anything of Foer -- any recommendations? >>
>>> >
>>> > Read about six pages of Everything's Illuminated before I threw it
>>>away and I never throw books away.
>>> >
>>>
>>>Thanks for the vehement advice. I don't like throwing books away
>>>either. They have to be REALLY bad for that kind of action.
>>>
>>>As for The Recognitions, I personally wouldn't equate its worth with
>>>GR. But I couldn't make it past about 2/3's before the interactions
>>>and dialogue of TR's own "whole sick crew" characters began to really
>>>annoy me, and I stopped reading it. I may try reading it again
>>>sometime, because so many people testify to its greatness.
>>>
>>>--
>>>David Morris
>>>
>
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