current and I think complete V-list

[malignd at aol.com]

I didn't say Pynchon was dreadful ...  Improving on bad sources 
stretches from Shakespeare to the Godfather movies.  Chandler is really 
awful.

Too bad that Pynchon's last novel owes so much to Chandler, eh? 


-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sat, May 15, 2010 11:41 pm
Subject: Re: current and I think complete V-list


On May 15, 2010, at 8:19 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote: 
 
> Chandler's dreadful.  He's embarrassing.  If you want to read a book 
 > in that vein read The Maltese Falcon.  Hammett writes circles around 
> Chandler.] 
 
Too bad that Pynchon's last novel owes so much to Chandler, eh?