Pynchon's work influences Jonathan Franzen---V. esp. maybe here

[Carvill, John]

<< I started, and quickly discarded Franzen's first novel, The Twenty-seventh City.  There's a gratuitous mention of Pynchon somewhere early on, and I couldn't help thinking he was an untalented Pynchon wannabe.  Haven't read anything of his since.  Is (are?) The Corrections really worth reading? >>

The Corrections is a book which many readers - me included - would say they very much enjoyed reading. That's the best word for it: enjoyable. There are longueurs, and it certainly is not the work of literature that Franzen thought it was.