superior GR

[Bryan Snyder]

My opinion:

GR is better than AtD because it is the most important novel ever penned (literally) ... BUT!!  

...Let's get a tad less hyperbolic for a second.  GR seemed to not have too much, nor be missing anything... while GR, I think totally nails down the themes TRP wanted to address, AtD is reaching for MORE... pulling more themes to the "Holy Center" in which case I'd argue that AtD is too short (!!!) for what TRP seems to be wanting to address.  

While GR speaks to (mainly) technology's ascent and the required decent of humanity (and then riffs on several tangential but just-a-micron-away related themes), AtD seems to be trying to speak to so much more, thus the idea that at some point, our reality made a horrible and irrevocable FINAL 90 degree turn... right to the killing room floor.

Again - all opinion.  And AtD is a book I really need to reread.  (plan on being buried w/ GR, so I'll have plenty of time postmortem)   

B

PS - for no reason I was just reminded of the Metatron scenes from GR... h-holy terrifying Plasticman!!

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of kelber at mindspring.com
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:06 PM
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Subject: RE: superior GR

Hellacious, but fun?


-----Original Message-----
>From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>

>For what it's worth, I concluded during the early comments here on ATD last
>winter that probably a majority of us would agree it could use some
>triming... but that if we were to follow that up, there'd be a hellacious
>brawl over which parts to trim :-)
>