A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Sun May 27 09:50:45 CDT 2007


On May 27, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Dan Hansong wrote:

> Hi, here is  Howard Schneider's shitty prophecy. Please share
> with us your reading spectrum and make a testimony against
> or for this iconoclastic judgment on the Pynchonites.




unless it's Pynchon whose doing it, I don't usually even like  
fictionalized science, history, technology

the critic's description doesn't apply to me, since I prefer other  
authors most of the time








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> I have a hunch that Pynchon's zealous fans don't read
> many novels, so they're not bothered by his flaws. They
> cherish their idol because he presents the world as they
> know it: science, technology, history, politics, high and low
> culture all mashed together to make a garish gallimaufry.
> The results might be messy but so is the society the
> Pynchonites inhabit.
>
> ----Review by Howard Schneider
> May-June 2007  THE HUMANIST
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