Lowery + Brezny + Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Alex Hunley wrote:

>
> The Stephenson/Pynchon comparison bothers me.  It seems to be like  
> a publisher's ploy to get impressive blurbs for Stephenson's dust  
> jackets, but I've heard it echoed elsewhere.  While, yes, they both  
> write idea-laden historical fiction, P's language is in a whole  
> different solar system.  Stephenson strikes me as what might result  
> from a synthesis of Pynchon and, say, Stephen King - good ideas,  
> but painfully verbose.
>
> ath

I prefer King to Stephenson. King just makes shit up. No intellectual  
pretension. Stephenson relies on actual preexisting ideas and  
history, but doesn't bother to get them right. And this is not poetic  
or creative license. It's not bothering.




>
> -- 
> "Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense!
> But you must pay attention to your nonsense."
> - Ludwig Wittgenstein, _Culture and Value_