AtD reviewed by Laura Miller at Salon

[Lary Wallace]

This sort of stupidity is precisely what one has come to count on from Laura Miller. Makes perfect sense. 



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From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
To: monte.davis at verizon.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:52:49 AM
Subject: RE: AtD reviewed by Laura Miller at Salon


Salon have *really* embarrassed themselves with this bullshit piece by 
Miller.

Preferring Neal Stephenson to Pynchon is like preferring Springsteen to 
Dylan.

>
> > AtD reviewed by Laura Miller at Salon
>
> > http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/11/21/pynchon/index_np.html
>
>Not only does it have this
>
>"At the heart of all this is a romantic delusion, namely a keen nostalgia
>for the heyday of 1960s counterculture..."
>
>See the "Boomer Myopia" thread. Does Miller have a clue that it was at 
>least
>as much bebop and Beats that set Pynchon's compass as Berkeley and the
>Byrds? That he was alive and alert during the 1960s is clear; that he
>idealizes or embodies them can be asserted only by a very careless reader.
>
>
>And in support of her argument that writers who have learned from Pynchon
>now surpass him, we get this:
>
>"Or, take a writer like Neal Stephenson, whose grasp of the systems that
>fascinate Pynchon -- science, capitalism, religion, politics, technology --
>is surer, more nuanced, more adult and inevitably yields more insight into
>how those systems work than Pynchon offers here."
>
>I enjoyed Stephenson's Snow Crash and Diamond Age, and anticipated that I'd
>really like his Baroque Cycle -- in large part because it so clearly aimed
>at a Pynchonian historical reach. But I bailed out early in the second
>volume because my experience was 180 degrees away from Miller's on all four
>counts.
>
>

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