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Subject: Why pick on Pynchon?
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 10:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 27 10:53:00 1984
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Why is everyone picking on Pynchon?   I, for one, found Gravity's Rainbow
throroughly enjoyable, and even liked much of V.  For some reason, since
the publication of Slow Learner even the literary establishment has been 
cutting him apart.  While I never thought of him as a major writer, I've
always found him enjoyable, if slightly derivative (but I liked Dhalgren
too).  It amazes me that a compartively skilled writer such as Pynchon can 
be slammed on this list while such crude authors as Piers Anthony, whom I
find unreadable, pass unscathed.  BTW, If you like Pynchon you will 
probably NOT like Palimpsests.  It is full of dead writing, continually
straining after effects, and has almost no sense of humor.  I was very
disappointed in it as I bought it automatically based on the quality of the
three previous books in the Ace series (Green Eyes - ok, The Wild Shore -
superb, Neuromancer - very good).  I hope Palimpsests is not indicative
of the books to come in this series.
	(mark)