Baroque cycle

[David Casseres]

On 4/15/05, Chris Pinner <chris.pinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, the only real problem of Snow Crash is the ending.  Even though
> Stephenson doesn't regret it, it feels very sloppy to me.  Too many
> things get tied up way too fast to leave the reader with any sort of
> feeling of resolution.  It is still a good read though.

For me, the weakness of Snow Crash is all that Sumerian stuff.  I
found myself skipping happily past it.


But comparing Stephenson and Pynchon, I love them both and read
everything that either of  them write.  But Stephenson remains good
fun, while Pynchon moves me deeply, at least in the two "big novels,"
Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon.  You can see Pynchon's influence
in so many other writers, always to the good -- but Pynchon is still
the one in command of the great themes.

David Casseres
(back after a few years)