Science Against the Day Labor

[Don Higgins]

Me:  I doubt any of P's California novels would have ever been noticed on their own, without Pynchon's name.
 Perhaps the last two but not because they aren't better written than say Stephen King novels (many of which I had to read for a job and which got positive reviews from people who trashed Vineland when it came out, for example, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, who judging from his reviews had more respect for Cujo). Didn't CL49 get noticed before Pynchon was a literary name? On its own (or with V.), it wouldn't have turned P. into the major literary figure that GR made him but that doesn't mean it isn't better than a lot of novels that get reviewed well. 

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