Editing Pynchon?

[David Morris]

My main beef with ATD is its scatteredness, divergences and characters
with stories that seem pointless and seem to contribute little to any
bigger picture, and the sheer number of them.  If an author is going
to ask me to spend over 1000 pages with him, I ask him to not waste my
time.  I also started to feel that some of his elaborately detailed
and poetic descriptions of places and thing were becoming
"Pynchon-formulaic."  I know, it's unfair of me to have a beef with
Pynchon for sounding like Pynchon, but it didn't seem fresh, and to
this day any passage from GR still seems vitally fresh to me.

I haven't gotten my IV yet, but that's OK.  I expect it won't take too
long to read, and I'll have finished it before Labor Day and before
the Group read.  And I promise I won't complain about it being
"pynchon-lite."  I'll accept it on its own terms.

David Morris

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok, ok, you didn't mean it as a compliment, we are clear on that. I know, opinions differ, and I'm not wanting to discount yours. Quite the opposite: as a long-time Pynchon reader (see, I didn't say 'fan') and p-lister, it's interesting that you didn't like ATD. I'm guessing there were certain sections, and some aspects, you liked? Where did the book go wrong for you?
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> And what do you think of IV so far?