Gibson

[Richard Romeo]

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
 Read it anyway. Glad I stuck it out,
> although if Pynchon
> wrote like Gibson, Gravity's Rainbow would have been
> as long as A la
> Recherche . . .endless dwelling on brand names
> (Google is only the tip
> of the iceberg), which might be excused as part and
> parcel of one theme
> of the novel but tiresome nevertheless ... plus, why
> does it need to
> take pages to describe the heroine's most mundane of
> activities. Still
> not a bad read in my opinion. There is what seems to
> me a worthy
> addition to the proverbs for paranoids list on
> pp.293-4.
> 
> P.
> 
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finished PR last night. I agree with your sentiments,
Paul. There's bits and pieces of Pynchon scattered
thru-out the book, but what's missing IMHO is that
street sense awareness, that feeling of dread, wonder,
e.g. of the common man.  It's all brand names and
hipsters with seemingly endless supplies of hard cash.
The 9-11 angle can be debated--why WG felt he had to
include beyond a plot device that's revealed near the
end of the book--is this suppose to give the book its
moral weight or granduer?
So, I do feel a bit cheated by the last 1/4 of the
novel tho overall it is a pleasurable read. I just
wish it hadn't become a Robert Ludlum novel.

Rich



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