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

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

         Chris Broderick:
         There is something in the narrative voice of 
         some passages of GR that is so driven and 
         feverish that it's hard not to imagine the 
         author (whatever the hell he looks like) 
         breaking out in a sweat as he meticulously 
         scrawls on quadrille paper.  If asked to 
         describe the book, I often bring up the 
         passage in the beginning where Prentice 
         imagines something to the effect of, "but 
         what if the rocket were to land directly at the 
         top of your skull?"  That's what's missing 
         from his later works.  But then again, 
         everyone gets older, most grow up.

I'd describe GR's narrative voice as Rilkean. Very poetic and at times
very paranoid. There's multiple narrators in GR, but there is a
 "default" voice.The narrative voice in Vineland is more knowing 
and comic. There are multiple, shifing narrative voices in AtD. The
Chums of Chance narrator is a self-conscious, very famous author 
of a series of celebrated children's novels. There is a typical 
western narrator, full of colorful local turns of phrase. Then there 
is all the T.W.I.T./Espionage material, with echos of Sherlock
Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft. Lots of genre voices for the narrators
of all the genre fictions in AtD. You could say it has no center. Or
you can say it's polytheistic. But there is no single narrative voice 
in AtD. Anyone looking for "Relativity" in AtD might want to listen up
for changes in the narrator's voice, as we move from one genre to 
another.