Irish Times Review

[Carvill John]

>I guess we have widely divergent opinions here.

Indeed we do. And I don't want to make too much of the fact that you haven't 
finished the book yet. But I have re-read a number of sections and every 
single one of them has revealed itself to be far richer than I realised.

>  You seem to have a
>problem with anyone who doesn't think AtD is a "success."  The review >is 
>fairly correct in calling AtD  an "immense, if less than epic
>cartoon."

The 'review' is a disgrace to the Irish Times, it's unbleivably pathetic, 
wrong-headed, mypoic and sloppy.

One one hand, I have no problem with anyone criticising ATD, I'm not so 
blinkered a Pynchon fan-biy. BUt this sort of thing just doesn't deserve 
serious consideration, it's a fucking joke. And on the other hand, you're 
not wrong that I can't get with anyone who doesn't feel the book is a 
'success', cause it's a classic, easily able to stand proudly among 
Pynchon's dud-free oeuvre. It isn't perfect, what novel is? I have my 
favourite and not-so-favourite segments and aspects, but the vast majority 
of these negative reviews are ill-informed, fatuous shite.

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