the Merle center

[David Morris]

One of the worst things I remember from AtD was the descriptions of
the Anarchists' Commune, and especially the golf game without rules.
I guess it was supposed to be funny.  It just felt painfully stupid to
me, and I think Pynchon was actually being wistful.

David Morris

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:47 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> there is alot to like in AtD--the Vormance Expeditions, the sheer beauty of
> some of the natural descriptions, I really like the Chums but so much of the
> dialogue-driven bits (and there's alot of them) are much to what's the word
> "cute", "unconvincing", that know-it-all TV'ness that passes for wordplay.
> and not to belabor the point but his villains are way too cartoonish. it's
> like listening to naomi klein or chomsky drone on and on. i dont necessarily
> disagree with whats being said but this is supposed to be interesting not
> something I got to for reassurance of my beliefs. none of the traverse are
> convincing--frank is bland, reef is annoying, and the other kid is into math
> (nuff said). the women are all spunky survivors, no one really suffers much,
> in the end who really cares about any of them. not me.