TP's blurb for Robbins

[Jemmy Bloocher]

I know it's not great stuff, but I enjoyed Robbins' novels. Light reading
though they are, nonetheless entertaining and I've certainly come across
much worse.
On 10 Dec 2015 09:55, "matthew cissell" <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:

>     Speaking of blurbs, where did I read that there was some grumbling
> from parts of the Pynchon fan base about the blurb for Robbins? Does that
> sound familiar to anyone? I don't think I'm making that up. Pre-Plist days
> so no archive to go by. Did it come up anywhere in print?
>
>    As a side note, Robbins and Pynchon were both in Seattle (having gone
> west to leave home behind) in the early 60's, both did military service in
> the mid 50's military service, being members of the silent generation they
> were more proto-hippies than hippies (to quote Robbins) and as such
> eventually questioned and rebelled against their conservative upbringings.
>
> I think it likely that they would have met at least once.
>
> Hope you're all well
> mc otis
>
>
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