(urth) OT: Anathem

[James Crossley]

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