<div dir="ltr">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. <br>
<br>Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:40 AM, James Crossley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ishmael@drizzle.com">ishmael@drizzle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I'm one. And I've liked Stephenson in the past because of his Pynchon-lite<br>
qualities, but--and it feels strange to say this--I wish he could write as<br>
tightly as Pynchon.<br>
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James<br>
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