Bleeding Edge - A Rolling Assessment

[John Bailey]

You're in the novel's "sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level
adulthood" but at least have passed the solipsism of its infancy. I'd
urge you to keep at it.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well, my assessment is rolling, but gathering no positivity. I'm around 200
> pages in now, and am basically thinking - reluctantly, and with great
> sadness - that this book is going to turn out to be Thomas Pynchon's first
> bona fide dud.
>
> Many have focused on the subject matter, particularly the tech and 9/11
> angles, both of which have been 'done' and - arguably - done more
> inventively (including, in the case of the latter and even the former, you
> could say) by Pynchon himself; but for me what grates is the slapdash
> narrative, annoying dialog, and almost total lack of the sort of prose I
> cherish Pynchon for.
>
> If this wasn't a Pynchon book I would have given up on it by now. Since it
> is Pynchon, I'll finish it.
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