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[Michael Bailey]

On 3/16/06, Keith McMullen <schwitterz11 at netscape.net> wrote:
> Whew. That rant left me a tad woozy.
>

But it's a good kind of woozy...

I think if you took Neal Stephenson's muse, gave her a drug habit, and
then put her through rehab, and have her pal around with John Irving's
muse for awhile, she might resemble David Foster Wallace's muse...

or not...just musing

(my position to criticize: I've written exactly 0 books, but read - a
fair number - never have tried to estimate how many - always happier
when I am in the middle of a book, quitting novels to free up time for
other stuff never seems to help)

up to page 300 or so, not hurrying, enjoying some of the prose, not
reminded of Pynchon all that much at all
pacing and breathing is different, not unenjoyable though I do not
think he will displace anyone on my non-hierarchical list of favorites
(that doesn't usually happen anyway, what happens is the list gets
longer, or wider, or expands into Hilbert space or something)

now wanting to read Octavia Butler (the mention of tentacle telepathic
sex clinched it for me)



--
"Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!"
-Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose