From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!macrev
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Riverworld: Farmer vs. Pynchon
Article-I.D.: mhuxi.1102
Posted: Tue Feb 22 07:11:47 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 01:05:05 1983


"Riverworld" disappointed me too, but I think pynchon would only have made
it worse.  He seems to prefer a lot of little climaxes to blowing his
wad in one big one, and as a result his stories ("V," "Gravity's Rainbow")
have a tendency to peter out at the end.  If Farmer had gone to
Zelazny with his ideas, "Riverworld" might have been a more satisfying
story.

Mike Lynch