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

[Henry Winkler]

Mark. You are wrong. Both those books are huge disappointments, particularly
AtD. I plan to re-read M+D so maybe I'll change my mind about it. Whether
Pynchon worked on AtD since GR does not change the fact that it is a piece
of shit. After all, William Gass worked on The Tunnel for 20 or 30 years and
that was a piece of shit, too.

Fonz


On 6/11/07, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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