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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I finished Cryptonomicon, but wouldn’t re-read it. In retrospect, it gave me the beginnings of the over-stuffed, under-worked-through feeling I got from Quicksilver.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> owner-pynchon-l@waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l@waste.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph S. Barrera III<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> Monte Davis<br><b>Cc:</b> 'pynchon -l'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Quite unusual p reference<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 06/18/2013 08:29 AM, Monte Davis wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I liked most of Stephenson’s SF well enough, and was primed to like the Baroque Cycle – I can’t think of anything more Pynchonian in its themes -- but could barely flog myself to the finish of <i>Quicksilver</i>. </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>But you did make it through Cryptonomicon? I found that immensely fun and have re-read it a few times. I've never felt compelled to re-read Snowcrash.<br><br>- Joe<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>