Prising some Character and Emotion out of Pynchon's Books

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Michael
Bailey<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Emotions and Characters in Pynchon

Always glad to read any rumination here, but I gotta admit, all this
stuff about "character" and "heart" and whatever is simply beside the
point for me, if even an issue at all.  So many people seem to try so
hard to produce at least the effect of such things, and end up cloying
at best in doing so.  SF is a case in point.  Compare Frank Herbert's
Dune books with son Brian's + Kevin J. Anderson's pre/se/interquels.
Note the excess of the mundane in any given Harry Turtledove novel
vs., say, the uncanny detailing of a PKD novel.  U.s.w., et soforthiam
....