Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epimass.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!nsc!csi!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon Message-ID: <156@epimass.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 01:03:37 EST Article-I.D.: epimass.156 Posted: Mon Feb 17 01:03:37 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 04:29:53 EST References: <25@rtgvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 25 Summary: I like the guy In article <25@rtgvax.UUCP> ramin@rtgvax.UUCP (Pantagruel) writes: >Any self-respecting Thomas Pynchon readers out there...? >If you have Gravity's Rainbow phobia stay out of it... I read and enjoyed "V" and "Gravity's Rainbow" and am not ashamed. But then I enjoy players of literary mind games like John Barth and Kurt Vonnegut (though some literary types are no doubt aghast that I'd put Vonnegut in the same category as Barth and Pynchon because he's easier to read). About a year ago, a lot of complaints about light bulb jokes were being made, and a couple of sf-lovers people were attacking Pynchon at the same time. Naturally, I posted part of the story of Byron the Bulb from Gravity's Rainbow. >Since moving down to Northern California a year ago, I have met only one >other person willing to admit they had read any Pynchon (and >"Crying of Lot 49" at that... not even a G.R. reader...) Well, I'm in northern CA (over a year now), but I'm still an easterner at heart. -- - Joe Buck Better to be silent and thought a pig than to oink and remove all doubt.