Neal Stephenson

[Ron Meiners]

At 06:52 PM 5/5/00 -0500, Commodore Bartonius wrote:
>Anyone read Neal Stephenson? I thought his latest work, CRYPTONOMICON, is
>rather Pynchon-esque. A good read. 

Am reading it now... not yet finished- sort of "Pynchon-Lite" is how I
think of it:  many echoes of the other, but sort of less of the brilliant
substance, though I am enjoying it, for the most part.

I needed a break after finally finishing GR.  Oops.

rm

PS. Actually... it is sort of ... nostalgic?  for GR?  There is definitly a
reverence, lots of the same tones, types of characters ("Shaftoe"?) drugs
and nazis and submarines and what all.  A certain edgy cartoonish tone.
But clearly he is paying homage to the other, so I am finding it ... almost
sweet.

Plus, can one ever have too much of wacky GI's cruising around WWII Europe?