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

[Henry Winkler]

Whether or not I could write something that is not a piece of shit does not
change the fact that AtD is a piece of shit. Vineland was less of a piece of
shit when I re-read it so maybe the same will happen with AtD when I re-read
it in a couple months.

Fonzie


On 6/12/07, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> >
> >
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