Slothrop & Invisible Man (My Two Teeth) For what it's worth

[Emma Wrigley]

Yes, ever since writing that email I have pondered what it is I find
annoying exactly. For the most part I find the characters insufferable
and the characterisations themselves superficial (hence the former
probably). Having written that I think I may go and pick up I Married a
Communist (it's within arms reach) and see whether time has healed.
Maybe I am also comparing his work on some levels to the greatness of
Saul Bellow and though it is a very long time since I've read any of his
work, I remember reading through them voraciously (or atleast the ones I
could get hold of being practically penniless at the time and living in
a town where the library was terribly underfunded).

Strangely perhaps, I have enjoyed Updike alot.

Now I am questioning everything I have ever read and loved or hated.
Argh.

Emma
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Carvill, John;Carvill, John
[john.carvill at sap.com;john.carvill at sap.com]
>Sent: 17/5/2010 8:37:52 AM
>To: ecwrigley at excite.co.uk;alicewellintown at gmail.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Slothrop & Invisible Man (My Two Teeth) For what it's
worth
>
>> Every time I read a Roth I get intensely annoyed and yet I keep
trying.
>
>Really? I haven't read any Roth I didn't enjoy, except of course 'Exit
Ghost', 
>that was rubbish. But I loved everything else (that I've read).
>
>The one I've found it hard to like is Updike. I loved the Rabbit books,
but 
>have yet to finish any other Updike.
>
>For my money, though, Saul Bellow has them both beaten in terms of pure
raw 
>talent. He may have become a curmudgeonly old right-wing misogynist
creep in 
>later years, but there's no doubting his literary genius. A-and, his
sense of 
>humour has been, I would say, somewhat overlooked. I'll never forget
the first 
>time I read 'Humboldt's Gift': that toilet scene near the start is a
classic.
>
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