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

[Dave Monroe]

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> Two statements appear to me worth discussing.
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>> 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.<
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> The novels are indeed similar and Vonnegut - "So it goes" - has, perhaps,
> the better punch line qualities.
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>> To this reader, Pynchon sounds like the unabomber with a better
>> thesaurus.<
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> This is not a literary argument and if it was this would rather be a
> compliment.
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> On 19.08.2015 00:51, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> 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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