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[kelber at mindspring.com]

Don't go by us -- most seem to disagree with our nay-saying.  Give us your take.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>

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>God, reading these posts makes me wonder whether I should even bother.
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>On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:51 PM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some say harsh satire but I don't really feel much of an edge to the goings on in IV; it feels all so sorta pointless, hardly sad or melancholic, profound or otherwolrdly which I think are Pynchon's strengths in general--all of that makes up for his goofy streak which is pretty much all we get in IV.
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>> in a word, IV feels "unnecessary"
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>> Rich
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>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> Sad to say, I agree with most of this.  >>
>>> Laura
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
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>>>>The book has some merit. Not much. For some odd reason Pynchon has
>>>>thrown out what he does well and kept what his does only average or
>>>>less than average. This is not the let down that VL was. It's far
>>>>worse. There is very little here to call this a work we should pass on
>>>>to other readers other than those that want to read a novel by Pynchon
>>>>and can't get through the other six. The style is ugly and difficult
>>>>to put up with. The language is so saturated with stupid and mundane
>>>>talk show F-word and groovy cool consumer crap and pop culture it
>>>>crowds out what little beauty Pynchon has invested in the work. Also,
>>>>the narrative choice makes all characters through Doc's POV flat. This
>>>>can not be avoided, but Pynchon takes some silly risks here by
>>>>introducing all these racial and ethnic types that are clearly not
>>>>69-70 types but later types that work well in buddy cop films and can
>>>>even cartoon it through in VL, but fall flat on their flat faces in
>>>>IV.
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