does AtD rock?

[Mark Kohut]

Yo, Ya Sam, I hear my name.........I'm outted...I failed at GR back in the day.....
  (I didn't want y'all to KNOW THAT...but Say-La-Vee...)
   
  Now in the middle.....will report since it is so nice to be asked.
   
  GR is so...dense (of course)...and tense....so, densly tense......i would argue it is more 
  compacted poetry than AtD......ATD's wonderful lyric passages come .....lyrically.....like breaking into prose song, so to speak.......
   
  GR is like The Wasteland all through almost....
   
  MHO,
  MK

Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
  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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