Los Angeles' literary landscape

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Actually there were lifted wholesale from "City of Quartz" by Mike Davis.
Oddly enough one of the jacket blurbs on my copy, from none other than
William Gibson hisself, declares the book...billed as a social history of
Los Angeles...to be "more cyberpunk than any work of fiction could ever be."

On 5/2/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Your comments,  Humberto,  put me in mind of Blade Runner.
>
> Bekah
>
>
> At 3:13 PM -0700 5/2/06, Humberto Torofuerte wrote:
>
> There is nothing to match flying over Los Angeles by night...only
> Hieronymous Bosch's Hell can match the inferno effect.
>
> On 5/1/06,* David Casseres* < david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The view of San Narciso from a hilltop, looking just like a
> printed-circuit board, is one of the things that made me bond tightly
> to Pynchon's books.  It is truly a breathtaking insight about
> California, and remains as precisely true today as it was then.
>
> On 5/1/06, Dave Monroe < monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The Crying of Lot 49
> >
> > By Thomas Pynchon
> >
> > When Oedipa Maas first beholds San Narcisco, a vast
> > sprawl of houses somewhere near L.A., it is all
> > dystopia sheathed in smog - and ripe for a conspiracy
> > as dark as any Jacobean tragedy But what matters most
> > is that Pynchon in a little more than 100 pages
> > captures a topography straight out of our local past.
> > The high jinks at Yoyodyne, the cavorting at Echo
> > Courts, and the pink glow of the sky at night - we
> > fail to recognize this world at our own risk.
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20060503/41a0a8a5/attachment.html>