(urth) OT: Anathem

[Bryan Alexander]

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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