(urth) OT: Anathem

Paul B pb.stuff at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 10:46:52 PDT 2008


Hellz yeah, Pynchon!  I love Gravity's Rainbow for its thematical scope and
sheer inventiveness, though I have no idea what you mean by "tight" writing
- Pynchon matches those two with some pretty rambling wordsmithing.

Paul

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

>
> 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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