New fashion?
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 17:54:48 CST 2007
I agree with you that he shouldn't have written this kind've review,
considering he liked AtD and brought the time needed to write a review in 3
installments
rich
On 1/20/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's different. You're a reader, but he's a reviewer doing his job. I
> don't know, but writing a review about not reading the book... there is
> something pathetic about it. He seems to have failed with AtD as well.
>
>
> "My hat is off to Vikram Chandra, and Thomas Pynchon, too—both of whom
> have
> lately written enormous novels. They are flying in the face of evidence
> that
> the world no longer has time for long, leisurely books. I commend their
> courage and their spirit, but I fear their days are numbered, for while a
> writer writes what he or she must, the days of Thackeray and Fielding and
> George Eliot are not coming back."
>
>
> >i would agree but i gave up after 200 pgs myself
> >
> >
>
>
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