Ms. Kakutani has only liked M & D of later Pynchon

[tbeshear]

Pretty negative assessment by Kakutani -- "cartoonish" -- no big surprise.


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From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:41 PM
Subject: Ms. Kakutani has only liked M & D of later Pynchon


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> Ye olde character question. I'd like to know what she thinks of GR.
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> I'll repeat myself but that M & D are "round characters" in her reading 
> and others' [Wood] is purposeful from TRP, imho.
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> Since their time in history, we
> are no longer full characters, I think TRP might argue with his work.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/books/04kaku.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=books
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