GR Overrated?

[Bekah]

It s hard to see the great in a style which grates. 

Bekah


On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:23 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saying one didn't enjoy a (supposedly) great work is quite different
> that saying it isn't all that great.  The first is an honest
> confession.  The second is egotistical.  Even worse is to denigrate
> those who profess a (supposedly) great work's greatness.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "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,
>> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
>> Henry Mu
>> http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm
>>