![]() ![]() “I think we’re far enough away from the ‘60s now that even people who aren’t nostalgic are curious. “It’s a book that isn’t comparable to much of anything,” says David Willis McCullough, one of the Book-of-the-Month-Club judges who chose it as a main selection. ![]() But ‘Vineland’ seems lacking in that ambiguity and wit, with too much of his hep-cat attitudinizing.” Everything has more than one possible meaning, which is where the paranoia comes from. “The Pynchon I like best is very highly wrought, multilayered, embedded with puns and metaphors. “A lot of it seems to be trying to send up contemporary California culture, which is a topic that’s certainly been done and done and done,” says one of these fans. ![]() Perhaps more damning is the fact that none of the three had finished it yet. At least three unauthorized readers-all real Pynchon buffs-profess themselves disappointed, meaning either their expectations were too high or that it’s not an easy task to follow up what is quite possibly the greatest American etc. Yet, as sometimes happens with these things, samizdat (clandestine) manuscripts are surfacing. That, at least, was the way it was supposed to be. ![]()
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