Review of Bleeding Edge

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 09:34:53 CDT 2013


whatever happened to the preterite? sounds like more of the same
wise-cracking, privileged whining and lame jokes, tired trope about loss of
unmapped space for young children to lose themselves in from another
depressed hippie. hardly enthralling stuff


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:54 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The novel might be a stinker, but this reviewer seems to have a solid
> grasp on its message.  The stinker aspect might be use of short-hand
> symbols to convey these messages rather than deeper explorations of the
> novel's concerns.  Pynchon sometimes can forget to develop a story, using
> symbols instead.
>
>
> On Thursday, August 29, 2013, rich wrote:
>
>> sorry, but this really sounds like another stinker
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Albert Rolls!
>>>
>>> https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/51/134
>>>
>>
>>
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