<div dir="ltr">Another Pynchon fanatic here, agreeing with James and 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="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On 9/15/08 9:33 PM, "Adam Thornton" <<a href="mailto:adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> If you want Pynchonesque Stephenson, it'd have to be the Baroque<br>
> Cycle: really really long, full of awful puns, and dotted with<br>
> occasional non-sequitur musical numbers.<br>
><br>
> Seriously: the Baroque Cycle is _Gravity's Rainbow_ only set after the<br>
> 30 Years' War rather than after WWII.<br>
><br>
> Speaking of which: how many other hard-core Pynchon fans are there here?<br>
><br>
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>
<br>
James<br>
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