NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT OMEGA

[Mark Kohut]

Those words re Against the Day---are 'agreeing with' words---worth fighting others over. 

--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>
> Subject: RE: NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT  OMEGA
> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, "Bekah" <bekker2 at mac.com>
> Cc: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 10:24 AM
> > I will argue with any that the
> prologue, Pafko at the Wall, from Underworld, ranks among
> the best writing of the last 25 yrs, in this country 
> 
> That's fighting talk!
> 
> Well, of course that is a bravura opening, although it
> maybe feels just a tad contrived - the author's delight in
> all the symbolism and resonances he's stirring in is right
> on the border of 'too clever-clever for its own good', imho.
> I enjoyed reading that section, but then the action shifted
> (a desert somewhere?) and I lost interest in the book.
> 
> I don't think DeLillo really ranks anywhere near as high as
> Pynchon. I haven't read all his stuff, but I do feel he's a
> touch overrated. I loved Libra, and very much liked White
> Noise. Mao II was a huge disappointment.
> 
> The way in which 'Against the Day' was overlooked will, I
> predict, come to be seen as the early 21st Century critics'
> invasion of Iraq, something people will forever shake their
> heads in bemusement at. 
> 
> I will argue with any that the first section alone, 'The
> Light Over The Ranges', is worth as much as any whole novel
> published in the last 20 years. 
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