Devil's advocate in Slate comments

[Otto]

Well, the early Genesis-records had qualities that could be compared to 
King Crimson, got them both on vinyl.

But I agree, I like Stephenson but to me he is "Pynchon-lite". I liked 
the "Cryptonomicon" (but the allusions to "Gravity's Rainbow" were too 
many), "Snow Crash" and "The Diamond Age". I like "Quicksilver" so far, 
but to me it's "Mason & Dixon"-lite.

Otto

loathsome toad wrote:
>> See, I've always felt that Cryptonomicon was a watered down attempt
>> by
>> Stephenson as a wanna-be Pynchon to write a GR.  I think Matthew's
>> comment there about sums it up for me as well.
>>
>> On 7/20/06, Matthew Ryan <matthew.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you want to read the book that Gravity's Rainbow aspired to
>> be, read Neal
>>> Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, for it has many of the same concerns,
>> it covers
>>> the same period and theatre of operations, and it is a much
>> better crafted
>>> book.
> 
> Not bloody likely! Stephenson has had a couple very good books
> (Snow Crash, The Diamond Age), but has a major problem in all
> of them: endings. Stephenson seems to have no idea how to end 
> a novel; about 3/4 the way through the book he seems to lose 
> interest or cannot adequately tie the strands of the preceding
> pages together in a satisfying way. Crptonomicon has such a bad 
> Hollywood ending (even a happy love-story resolution) that it 
> utterly ruined the preceding pages for me. Stephenson's prose 
> is nicely transparent, but he is not a stylist........and 
> certainly no Thomas Pynchon.
> 
> In actuality, there are many authors who seem to have difficulty
> finishing their novels in an aesthetically satisfying way, so
> perhaps it is not fair to single Stephenson out.
> 
> Comparing Stephenson to Pynchon is like comparing Genesis to
> King Crimson or comparing U2 to Joy Division.  ;)
> 
> tired,
> 
> bill2
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." ___ W. S. B.


		
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