This week in pointless trivia.

[rich]

I would argue that IV suffers from the same things that you mention below,
John. There are tiny flashes in IV of the good Pynchon but most is
thro-away. i'm sure we dont want to rehash all that again.

He's either become lazy or a whiner, maybe both. post M&D, the man imho has
become rather pedantic.

rich


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Spot on. This is extremely close to what I've been thinking as I crawl
> through BE. It's hard to say what it is I don't like, a lot harder than it
> was, say, to defend IV against claims that it was too light, etc.
>
> What's lacking? For me almost all the aspects of Pynchon that I cherish
> are absent. The po-mo stuff is present and correct, but you can keep it.
> Where's the beautiful language?  The subjects and themes Pynchon has
> focused on in BE are not handled in any imaginative, insightful, or
> even entertaining way. What's much worse, though, is the writing style
> throughout: heavily reliant on overcooked cutesy dialog, corny jokes,
> stupid names, coincidence, etc; entirely lacking in the jazzy poetry we
> expect from Pynchon's prose.
>
>
>
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