Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure@sri-prism From: mclure%sri-prism@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Pynchon; why read him? Message-ID: <12501@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 23:20:55 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12501 Posted: Wed Aug 15 23:20:55 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 01:52:39 EDT Lines: 11 Pynchon is for the Pynchon groupies, no one else. I too tried to read some of his books and found them tiresome. He doesn't hold a candle to V. Nabokov or (when they are writing at full strength) H. Ellison & R. Silverberg. There are some mainstream authors too that he has trouble matching. I think certain authors tend to get overrated by the "college crowd" and then get "pushed" onto everyone else as "good" literature, when in fact they produce nothing more than the usual mundane stuff. Stuart