Spam?

[Carvill John]

Dave, I can't speak for Jill, but I did not have you in mind when I replied to her post. I just re-subscribed, and am having a hard time fighting through the spam, no question about it. I see some old names on here, and a few new ones, but I have yet to see any threads that seem worthwhile.
As for reviews, I haven't finished the book itself yet so don't want to read them, but will get to them once I'm done. As you know, Tim Ware's Pynchon wiki collates them, and for me that is enough, I don't need a flurry of URLs in my inbox. Now, if there's particular point in a review somebody wants to discuss - or just the general dismissive tendency on the part of mainstream reviewers - then that's fine. But if you're just sending me a link I'll see elsewhere then I'm not that interested.
I'll eventually be writing some sort of online review myself, and so far I'm worried about that. I'm 100 page in and thinking so far this is Pynchon's worst book by a mile. I have heard that it picks up and there have been a couple of decent passages thus far, but on the whole I am finding it quite annoying. If this wasn't Pynchon, I'd be rating this book, based on my progress so far, as 'poor'.
Don't stop posting on my/our/anybody's account, Dave. But given your experience and intelligence, I'd welcome more of your own words and less of the redundant URLs.

Keep cool
J




 		 	   		  
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