Devil's advocate in Slate comments

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 5:47 PM, MalignD at aol.com 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. >>
>
> These sorts of inevitable comparisons are not constructive.  I  
> don't think
> Stephenson is a wannabe Pynchon.  Cryptonomicon is wonderful -- smart,
> fast-paced, clever, but I see no comparison to GR.  They have  
> different aspirations.
> Any writer smart about science and technology isn't necessarily  
> trying to
> imitate TP.  He couldn't possibly have thought he was trying to top  
> GR.

Cryptonomicon was dreadful.