authors influenced by Pynchon

[Will Layman]

I don't love everything DFW publishes, but I think those of you who  
don't like his work are just missing the boat.  Many of the charges  
leveled at Wallace -- of long, mazey sentences, of purposeful  
opaqueness, of mechanical characters and pointlessly long and wordy  
novels -- are bulls-eye Pynchonian.

I loved INFINITE JEST, and I'm not afraid to say it here among you.

But, of course, I've read some stuff here in the last week about  
people not much liking GRAVITY'S RAINBOW or MASON & DIXON too.

Huh?!?

-- Will
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:29 AM, David Morris wrote:

> If only he could write!
>
> On 10/16/06, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>>
>> Anyway, I agree with Gerald Howard's assessment from the Pynchon  
>> essay in Book Forum: "David Foster Wallace may be the only  
>> certifiable genius in American fiction besides Pynchon".