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[David Morris]

Not commenting on others' assessments of VL.  Personally VL is my least
favorite Pynchon novel.  Its family drama never made sense to me,
especially Frenaisi's arc.  I really disliked VL's portrayal of Women being
(down below) weak-knee'd for male dominance.

I gave it a second shot during the last VLVL read, but more exposure to VL
didn't change my view.  It confirmed it.  At best, VL might be seen as a
primer on how Pynchon writes, if restricted in length.  I think Pynchon
likes symbols more than characters, and equations more than narrative.
Given space to wax poetic, he mesmerizes.  But the short version is clunky.

GR is my favorite.  But I also love MD.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:38 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> For an overall assessment of the novel, I recommend Frank Kermode's
> negative review in the LRB and the first letter to the editor in reply
> which is an essay all by itself:
>
>
> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v12/n03/frank-kermode/that-was-another-planet
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