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[Michael Bailey]

Laura wrote:
> Sad to say, I agree with most of this.  Still, I'm willing to spend time listening to other's opinions and teasing out what's worthwhile in the book.  Got nothing better to do.
>

what could possibly be better than this?


alice:
>>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.

do you think it's an excursion into romance territory again?
as you had a thesis about romance vs novel (did I get that right?)
involving a forgotten generation of bawdy funny feeling-rich american books?
(gotta find that post again...)
and thus that most people don't respect romances like they do novels?





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