Your Arm's Too Short to Fight with Thomas Pynchon
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 11:50:25 CDT 2008
I never meant dismissal. GR is probably my favorite novel. Still
categorizing genre(s) it embodies is a form of analysis and places it
in historical context.
That said, I think COL40 was a sort of dry run of GR, and much less successful.
David Morris
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:37 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine once outraged me by dismissing my idol Dostoyevsky as a cheap crime writer. You can reduce D or TRP to the pulp elements of their novels, but there's little for the reader to gain by doing so.
>
> Laura
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