Well I just reread Vineland and the news is still bad...

[Charles Albert]

INSATIABILITY is calling your name.......



love,
cfa

On 6/9/07, Henry Winkler <rushm0r3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well I just reread Vineland and it still sux but after AtD it was better
> than I remember. The light imagery in Vineland makes more sense after AtD.
> Parts like the Noir Center Mall are still absolutely awful tho. I can't suss
> what happened to Pynchon post-GR. Sure, V and CL49 have weak parts, but
> Vineland, M+D, and AtD seem very mediocre in comparison. DeLillo and Cormac
> McC also seem to have peaked. It's been downhill for DeLillo since
> Underworld. Falling Man is quite bad. Same for Mayor McC after The Crossing.
> Coover and Barth have been unreadable for me lately. I can't get thru any of
> their recent stuff. Postmodernism is senile or dead, maybe. At least JG
> Ballard is still kickin'.
>
> Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli
>
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