A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans

[rich]

funny, but in my case this has a kernel of truth as I've read less and
less fiction over the past five years or so from what I used to read.

what can I say, al qaeda is alot more interesting

rich

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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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