The flattened American landscape of minor writers

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Fri Feb 27 07:24:15 CST 2009


On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:55 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

>  If you have a certain range of interests that coincide, in part,  
> with the above list, you're likely to love Pynchon. . .

> . . . Pynchon strikes more chords in a few people, meaning that his  
> books make "better music" than Nancy Drew or Watchmen, both of which  
> strike fewer chords in more people.

Yeah, it's that combo of Beethoven, Schoenberg and really fine hashish  
that makes Gravity's Rainbow such smooth reading:)




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