an opinion on TRP and HJ

[rich]

compare Pynchon to say Faulkner who had both scope of vision and
really vivid characters. That doesn't make me like WF more mind you as
Pynchon is more to my taste

I also get the sense that what is bugging me about IV is its
irrelevance to the times we're living in now (even Vineland had a
topical bent)--its also as if he decided to write another book about
1945 or the 1760s

oh well, enough wittering as robert fripp once said

rich


On 7/23/09, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> I am not convinced that OBA is so very weak on character. He is no Dickens
> or Steinbeck, but he is not incapable. Having said that, I agree that he
> could do better. Is the discussion about more-or-less? A scale on which OBA
> is not the heaviest weight?
>
> Whatever one's postion vis a vis character, Rich is right about richness of
> prose and scope of vision.
>
> Thanks for the tip on the new Coover book.
>
> Page
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: an opinion on TRP and HJ
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>> as are many passages in AtD and M&D--I think we can agree that this is
>> Pynchon's strength, his weakness for character is overshadowed by the
>> richness of his prose and scope of vision, something that I think is
>> not in books like Vineland and I suspect IV
>>
>> More is not less in Pynchon, more is better--my preference so I do
>> hope for one more big book though I doubt it
>>
>> p.s. on PBS here in the US, on IV launch day, the Frost-Nixon
>> interview is being shown.  Nice coincidence
>>
>> pps  Coover's new book Noir will be published in April (like The
>> Kindly Ones, originally published in French)
>> Rich
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