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

[mikebailey]

robin sez:
>
> to indulge in Transgression For The Hell Of It, fine, but let's not
> confuse that overheated catalytic convertor in that pile of dry,
> raked leaves over there

sez I:
"Huh?"  I'm not a catalytic converter, but you've confused me here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMCRru6JEo8

> Audience; probably having read a few critiques concerning
> OBA written by MDA's

or, better yet, by MBA's.  Actually, the profit potential in
war as described in GR is a case study at Wharton school...

> difference of opinion here. The kind of existential dread that
> pervades GR doesn't really return in the later books, at least
> to not the same degree.
>

Yeah.  I have enough existential dread in my worldview - no need
to reload that from novels.