On 21 Nov 2003, at 6:46 am, Andrew Paul wrote:
From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: author review
And a question: Anyone here actually read Thomas Pynchon? Is it worth it to find Gravity's Rainbow, or is it one of those "great novels" taht are actaully kind of dull? :)
Jim
I know what you mean, but I was given Gravity's Rainbow by my brother, and I thought it was excellent. I read it start to finish, breaking only to eat. I'd almost call it SF, it was that good.
I started it, but it became one of the few books I started but didn't finish. And I've read Dhalgren twice! The late Bob Shaw reviewed Gravity's Rainbow as sf in Foundation (I think) and made a convincing case that, as science fiction, it was very very bad. It is probably best categorised as fabulation. The Barth, Borges, Calvino kind of stuff.
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