A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Bekah:

>Specific and historically accurate dating is of less importance in this 
>novel [AtD] than the sense of the times and I think Pynchon was writing 
>with a specific view toward what was known at those times and in the way 
>those times knew it.     Pynchon is not giving us a history or a science 
>book;  he's giving us a slightly different way of perceiving and organizing 
>  the information that was in those books about 100 years ago along with a 
>totally fictional cast and crew to keep it light (so to speak).

One of the best concise descriptions of AtD I've yet encountered! Thanks, 
Bekah.

And to answer the initial question in this thread: I'm also a voracious 
reader, of fiction as well as non-fiction. In the fiction department my 
taste ranges from Harry Potter, Stephen King, Alistair Maclean and Ian 
Rankin, over Martin Amis, David Mitchell, Evelyn Waugh, Haruki Murakami, 
Philip Dick, Alfred Bester, Jonathan Franzen and William Gibson, to Nabokov, 
Melville, Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, Poe, Nathanael West, Borges, Flann 
O'Brien, David Foster Wallace, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm Lowry, Cervantes, 
Thomas Mann, and Joseph Conrad. Pynchon is the King, though (and Schneider 
is a bloody fool!)

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