Apophenia, Gibson, and COL49

Dave Monroe flavordav at yahoo.com
Mon May 5 11:47:57 CDT 2003


See the NY Times review conveniently posted at ... http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/gibson_review.html Me, I really liked PR.  Thought All Tomorrow's Parties, however, was his best to date.  Interesting howeverthat both he and Bruce Sterling (Zeitgeist) are suddenly setting their novels roughly in the present ... 
joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net> wrote:I'm about halfway through Pattern Recognition and find the echoes of Oedipa's hunt for the Trystero to be deafeningly loud.

Anybody else notice this? Or am I guilty of the same paranoid apophenia at which both books hint?

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