GUARDIAN PIECE ON 'VINELAND'

[alice wellintown]

Why would Guardian print this? If it were a first reading of VL back
when the book was issued it would still not merit a few lines in
Guardian. What is the point of this? Maybe when Gitmo was the subject
of op-eds or maybe if the belated review were somehow connected to the
Obama wars or something, but this reviewer can not even name the
protagonist (Prairie not Zoyd) and seems determined to save a great
ignored and mis-read cult classic from the fate of the  Dude, the
dusty bottom Blockbuster shelves, by dismissing half of the book.

Like, 9-11 was like a while ago and you should read Conrad's The
secret Agent cause it's like a Hitchcock and stuff. Man, I mean, I'm
the Dude, man, and like I finally finished re-reading VL and like,
Guardian must be smokin the same shit as me cause like they are gonna
print my shit, Man.

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Roy Cross <roycross at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/31/thomas-pynchon-vineland-rereading
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