"The Man in the High Castle" and its impact on Pynchon's work

[Joe Allonby]

I'd like to be associated with the remarks of the previous poster.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> And "A Scanner Darkly" is one of the most intellectually honest Dystopias
> I've read.
>
> I find early PKD -- like "Man in the High Castle" -- clunky and tone-deaf.
> But his later work is more interesting, that flat-affect dialog becomes
> increasingly plausible as PKD's clock runs down and the paranoia level ramps
> up. By the time we get to "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer," we've got
> a real writer on our hands.
>
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Joe Allonby wrote:
>
>> I like his concepts. The "Valis Trilogy" reads almost like the work of
>> another author compared to the rest of his stuff.
>
>