[jd]

That's a shame, that it wouldn't sell well - and I do believe that it
probably wouldn't.  Then again, Infinite Jest was a national best
seller, was it not?

I read a Saul Bellow interview where he talks about how he felt that
he sort of got in under the wire as far as being a writer of fiction
goes, but he seemed to indicate that such things would move in cycles
- I wonder if people will return to books again, or if in fact books
like Pynchon's will be relegated to a relatively small audience from
here on out?

The interview, for anyone interested:
http://www.bu.edu/agni/interviews-exchanges/print/1997/46-Bellow.html

On 7/25/06, richard baillie <richbaillie at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> i believe that GR sold around 300,000 copies in hardcover in 1973 alone
>
> if it were released today i would be surprised if it sold more than
> 50,000
>
> not stephenson's fault...
>
> that said, i always think of stephenson as pynchon-lite, i like his work
> but he reminds me of those graded readers you get at school
>
> ie. if you can read cryptonomicom at 13 you can read GR when you're 17
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