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

[Joseph Tracy]

Gee Henry, why don't you write us something that is not a piece of  
shit? At least a taste of lit crit with some substance or humor or  
some kind of potential amusement.
On Jun 11, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Henry Winkler wrote:

> 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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