OT: Anathem

Bryan Alexander · 16 Sep 2008, 18:37 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: bryan.alexander at gmail.com (Bryan Alexander)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:37:42 -0400
Subject: (urth) OT: Anathem
In-Reply-To: <C4F5217D.78C2%ishmael at drizzle.com>
References: <56E579CC-4AA9-4DAF-8140-6DA2F0E57A1B at io.com>
	<C4F5217D.78C2%ishmael at drizzle.com>
Message-ID: <a55c3dff0809161137s77182342k7e17d9c889fe20ed at mail.gmail.com>

Another Pynchon fanatic here, agreeing with James and Paul.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM, James Crossley <ishmael at drizzle.com>wrote:

> On 9/15/08 9:33 PM, "Adam Thornton" <adam at io.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you want Pynchonesque Stephenson, it'd have to be the Baroque
> > Cycle: really really long, full of awful puns, and dotted with
> > occasional non-sequitur musical numbers.
> >
> > Seriously: the Baroque Cycle is _Gravity's Rainbow_ only set after the
> > 30 Years' War rather than after WWII.
> >
> > Speaking of which: how many other hard-core Pynchon fans are there here?
> >
> I'm one.  And I've liked Stephenson in the past because of his Pynchon-lite
> qualities, but--and it feels strange to say this--I wish he could write as
> tightly as Pynchon.
>
> James
>
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