Kathryn Hume's other Pynchon stuff

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 08:34:39 CDT 2012


I believe you re mostly correct in these statements.  Pynchon can
still write beautiful and elaborate prose (but I think he's less
likely to make page-length sentences as in GR).  But I got the
distinct feeling in AtD that it was in the service of not much.  It
almost felt at times that he was imitating himself or following a
formula.

David Morris

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:11 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I suspect that it is not the prose style,
> surely superior in the elder P of AGTD, that turns GR-Fanboys off. It
> is other things, like characters and themes and settings and, dare I
> say, plots. But it is not the style, not the words and sentences and
> imagery and the craft. No way! AGTD is superior hand at work. No
> serious reader or writer can deny that.



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