V.,wherefore such silence? Whither goest thou?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

There's a lot that I don't like in this book, but there's a lot I love.  This is the breeding ground for GR, and also for much of ATD.  ATD, by the way, disappointed me.  I don't feel it covered any new ground or expanded my consciousness in any way.  Inherent Vice left me cold.  It didn't provide anything I look for in Pynchon: rich paragraphs, fascinating asides of time and place.  V. has plenty of that.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Dec 5, 2010 12:21 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: V.,wherefore such silence? Whither goest thou?
>
>Well, like I said before, I always wondered why I didn't like "V.",  
>the current reading simply reinforces that distaste for super-flat  
>dialog and too many references to books I'm in no rush to get around to 
>—I'd rather paint, play the guitar, clean the catboxes. I'll be around  
>for chapter 14, but truth to tell, I still don't enjoy reading "V."  
>for rather obvious reasons. So excuse me for dropping out of the  
>chorus. Maybe if the tune was "God Only Knows" or "Wonderful" or "Good  
>Vibrations" . . .