Book Review: 'Bleeding Edge,' by Thomas Pynchon (WSJ)

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Sam Sacks' " hideous genius".....what a passive-aggressive critical phrase....what a way to say
Unclassifiable genius....but then he does grant him " myth making" power.....

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On Sep 18, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Jill Adams <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:

> Yes just google the title and it all comes up.. Or go to your Library and look on the newspaper rack!
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> "The more directly Mr. Pynchon confronts true events, the more his themes and plotting lose their metaphoric resonance and seem instead like straw-man targets for a conspiratorial worldview." -Sam Sacks
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> I agree. I'm only in the first chapter but I get told too clearly what's going on, he doesn't paint a massive painting then stand me before it to gaze and reread sentences.  So little is hanging shimmering with that quality that made me think ..what if... he means 3 things at once? His voice is there, my friend is talking to me, so at least that's a comfort. And I see Sam agrees that his most beautiful one was M&D..
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> Jill
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> SAM SACKS
> Thomas Pynchon is the Richard Wagner of American fiction. This isn't only because his magnum opus, "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973), about the quest for a devastating V-2 rocket secreted inside Nazi Germany, both parodies and embraces the epic Teutonic insanity of the Ring Cycle. There's also a stylistic kinship: Mr. Pynchon's writing is startling, mesmeric, bombastic. He has a hideous genius, yet he's capable of breathtaking tenderness and beauty (see the bucolic idylls of 1997's "Mason & Dixon"). Most of all, just as Wagner smashed the constraints of traditional opera, Mr. Pynchon has transcended what he calls in "Against the Day" (2006) "suburban narratives and diminished payoffs" by creating enormous, rococo alternate realities—by mythmaking. [excerpt]
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