Nothing Happened

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Love Something Happened and agree that it's Heller's best book, although Good As Gold makes me laugh the most and, of course, there's the wonderful evisceration of Kissinger.  (He's not a Jew!)



-----Original Message-----
From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 1:59 pm
Subject: Nothing Happened


I have just finished reading Chabon's review of Bleeding Edge in NYRB, and I like it, but IMO it misses consideration of Joseph Heller's "Something Happened," which I believe that I am not alone in rating as Heller's best, though not most important book, as a precedent for an accomplished author's flattening and normalizing of language.  The irony of the title of Heller's book, in which nothing much really did happen, is not, however, echoed in Pynchon's new book in which, in a city that, in spite of it's tall buildings, is a gray, flat land, a lot happens.
 
No real spoilers: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/07/thomas-pynchon-crying-september-11/


Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20

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