Book Review: BLEEDING EDGE

[Fiona Shnapple]

All decent critiques of the novel, but they are all ultimately down to the
reader, or in this case, reviewer, telling Pynchon to stick to his
strengths and write in his comfort zone so that he, the reviewer can be
amazed by P's talent. Like telling Kubrick to stick to Spartacus. P may
write best from a distance, but his choice a nyc novel in the pt is not a
problem. It's not like Joran playing baseball. It, ain't even P trying
poetry, drama, film. It's a novel. He writes novels. Characters again?  We
don't need a villain. Do we? Isn't Gabe gone bad, starring Alec Baldwin as
Gabriel Ice in there somewhere? Horst is watching now. The Mobil servers
thar Reg and Eric are driving from the Microsoft campus East through
Montana, the Lapland servers, Facebook & NSA Inc., if that ain't a villain
than maybe we need one, but, as with Brock, these boys are just riding a
wave of power that can crash on the shore any day now.

What conspiracy? The novel debunks them all. Th truth is there. The
government, as Ernie explains it, set it all up.

On Monday, December 30, 2013, Dave Monroe wrote:

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