(urth) OT: Anathem

Adam Thornton adam at io.com
Mon Sep 15 21:33:51 PDT 2008


On Sep 15, 2008, at 9:25 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

> I've had other people say similar things to me, but I don't see it  
> as all
> *that* good. But then I don't really like either Pynchon or Gibson  
> either.
>
>> I haven't read the Baroque cycle be Stephenson, but "Snow Crash"
>> continues to top my list of favorites.  It's like Thomas Pynchon and
>> William Gibson had a baby.
>>

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?

Adam
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