pynchon-l-digest V2 #6983

[rich]

On 8/4/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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that's a fair argument if she feels he's spinning his wheels to a
certain extent. You don't have to be a Republican to believe that alot
of  that 60s radical shit was comical nonsense


> 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....

her review of AtD was weak admittedly.

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>> 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
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>> 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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