tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post7707881094399878406..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Battered Penguins - V by Thomas Pynchonzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-44362401948085651682016-04-20T11:26:59.118+02:002016-04-20T11:26:59.118+02:00I won't dive back in for a while, but I do thi...I won't dive back in for a while, but I do think he is a terrific writer & I will read more of him. The plus of him is that when you are reading his books you are never bored, although you may be many other things, first & foremost confused. The biggest minus for me, at least in V, is that, consciously or unconsciously, he is writing to an audience of menzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-72297973629389450522016-04-20T02:35:59.903+02:002016-04-20T02:35:59.903+02:00Is it safe to assume that The Crying of Lot 39 and...Is it safe to assume that <i>The Crying of Lot 39</i> and <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> haven't moved up your wish list?<br /><br />It struck me that Pynchon had nailed a number of the trends of the 1980s well before they got there: Felix Mixolydian was a "couch potato" before they were invented; and I thought of the "soul dentist" when so many acquaintances were concerned with temporomandibular joint disorders.<br /><br />The baseball player Al Kaline had a distinguished career with the Detroit Tigers, and is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. It has since occurred to me that I would have rolled my eyes had I encountered his name not in the sports pages but in Pynchon.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com