Re: Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Two statements appear to me worth discussing.

> When one contrasts Vonnegut’s  Slaughterhouse Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic 
sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one 
hand and a soda in the other.<

The novels are indeed similar and Vonnegut - "So it goes" - has, 
perhaps, the better punch line qualities.

> To this reader, Pynchon sounds  like the unabomber with a better thesaurus.<

This is not a literary argument and if it was this would rather be a 
compliment.


On 19.08.2015 00:51, Dave Monroe wrote:
> Happy 77th Birthday, Thomas Pynchon (note publication date)!
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> http://biblioklept.org/2014/05/08/selections-from-one-star-amazon-reviews-of-thomas-pynchons-gravitys-rainbow/
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