does AtD rock?

[Ya Sam]

I hope everything's fine now, Bekah.

My first reading of GR not only blew my mind, but also showed how pathetic, 
ignorant and narrow-minded I was (maybe I'm still is, but Pynchon showed me 
some ways to improve myself). If simply becoming a Pynchon reader requires 
such an effort (I had read Ulysses before and thought so high of myself), 
then what does it take to write like Pynchon? I hope he didn't sell his soul 
to the Devil.

BTW, there are folks around who first read AtD and then GR, so I think it 
would be interesting to learn about their opinion of GR after AtD and not 
the other way round. If I'm not mistaken, Mark is one of those.



>
>I only got around to reading GR a few years ago, when I was a middle-aged, 
>unemployed
>pathetic failure with no illusions about anything.  Yes, it totally rocked, 
>blew my mind, etc.
>ATD is good to read if you love Pynchon, but it's not the life-altering 
>experience that GR was.
>
>Laura
>

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