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

[Charles Albert]

You've got the wrong guy.......


I suggested that the Fonz go to Stanistaw Ignacy Witkiewicz for succor....

For the record, Pynchon has never disappointed me........but I'm not all
that discriminating, apparently...


love,
cfa

On 6/10/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Charles,
>
> Not going to argue all the cases, but M & Dis, I think as astonishing as
> GR.......and ATD is, INMO, a bounds-breaking cracked masterpiece that
> TRP had been working on since GR, at
> least.
>
> *Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> 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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