pynchon-l-digest V2 #6983

[Carvill John]

But that tone, man. 'Oh naturally old Mr Stuck-in-the-Sixties, just say yes Hippie says boo to the man....'. Sounds like it was written by a Republican that review. 
She obviously decided she didn't like the book *before* she read it. Her blanket dismissal of ATD is a give-away. I can see how people find faults in that book, but I find it hard to see how someone can't find genius in it too. The first section (Light Over the Ranges) alone is better than anything published in the last decade by any American (or other) novelist, imho.
Try this: take your copy of ATD down from the shelf, break it open at a random page, and start reading. Now see how long it takes before you come across something wonderful.... 

> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:39:30 -0400
> Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #6983
> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
> To: johncarvill at hotmail.com
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> maybe i'm mister curmedgeon today but I don't really think of this as
> an unbalanced review unlike that dipshit in New York magazine (no
> reviewer worth their salt should ever say I Hate this I like that)
> she gave her reasons and u may disagree but that's cool. I happen to
> agree w/ her that M&D is pbly the best of the post-GR books (and I
> would argue again, the book he spent the most time on)
> 




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