GR Overrated?

[Henry M]

"Authors, critics, and editors on 'great books' that (they say [hm])
aren't all that great"
http://www.slate.com/id/2301312/
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Amy Bloom, author most recently of Where the God of Love Hangs Out:

Gravity's Rainbow
Critics and regular (and erudite) people and the three members of the
1974 Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction admire the hell out of this book.
(The other 11 members of the board disagreed violently and no fiction
prize was given that year.)* Gravity's Rainbow did win a National Book
Award and it did make Time magazine's list of the All-Time 100
greatest novels.

If you like it, you say: This all fits together like the cleverest and
most tessellated of rainbows. You love the circular plot and the way
its structure echoes the rainbow-shaped trajectory of a V-2 rocket,
and the recurring motifs of those same rockets, plus dense dialogue
broken up by bits of silly poetry and chunks of Tarot, a rash of
paranoia and, of course, a lot of kazoos. I myself admire the 400
characters and the numerous special effects. The riffs on behavioral
psychology and sexual slavery almost did me in.

For people who like this sort of thing, as Muriel Spark wrote, this is
the sort of thing they like. I prefer Muriel Spark.
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AsB4,
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Henry Mu
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