COL49: Why the Negativity, TRP?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 18, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Mark Woollams wrote:

> Hello P-listers:
>
> (Pardon the break from V read topic)
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on why TRP is so negative about COL49?
>
> Just wondering as I crawl back into this wonderful series of words.  
> Its a gem
> that COL49...
>
> Thanks,

No problem here, as I still haven't really dove back into V. myself.

I suspect the novel in question was, as he wrote somewhere, written  
for cash, very quickly. Look close and you'll find plenty of glib,  
sophomoric humor, cardboard characters  and red herrings.* Meanwhile,  
he's simultaneously writing his "Great White." And after that  
doorstppper sees the light of day he's effectively enveloped in radio  
blackout for seventeen years, save for twenty-one enticing pages in  
"Slow Learner."

*And how is this day different from any other day?