Re: Book Review of Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

[Mark Sacha]

I imagine it taking him much longer to compose that rant than the alleged
six hours it took him to read GR. That he poses this obviously fabricated
figure as an argument for the novel's lack of substance is absurd,
especially judging by his bio, which seems to indicate that he considers
himself a serious critic. But I guess it's more cogent than some of his
other arguments, which include supposed "hipster" sentimentalities, that
it's "low-grade MFA writing", or that it's "boring as shit".


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>wrote:

> *From:* rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>
> one wonders why go to all the trouble blathering on about something you
> hate.
>
>
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> PG:
>
> absolutely - in my own experience of composing reviews, i have never been
> interested in tearing something to shreds - i'd much rather write about
> something i'm excited about and would like to share with others. he
> certainly is working very hard to tell us how right he is and how wrong
> pynchon and all his admirers are ...
>
> the things that bugs me the most is the smarmy glee that he seems to
> exhibit while dis-ing TRP. typical holier than thou, i'm the smartest
> motherfucker in the room antics that so turned my stomach in graduate
> school.
>
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