Richard Morgan interview

[John BAILEY]

Murakami and Pynchon, apples and oranges. They're two of my favourite
authors - probably my two favourite authors - but I agree that there's
rarely a reason to use their names in the same sentence. If you don't
like what M does with Wind-Up Bird, you probably won't like anything
else he's written.

And Delillo just comes across as smug, to me.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Keith
Sent: Monday, 30 April 2007 9:37 AM
To: Pynchon List
Subject: Re: Richard Morgan interview

I have the same reaction to Murakami that I have to DeLillo. I want to
like them, but about a third (or less) of the way in I'm feeling
disappointed and anxious for the story to end, so I can read something
by an author who fully delivers. If I want something substantive, but
"lighter," I'd rather read Philip Dick, or Borges, or Saramago, or
Marquez, or Calvino, or.....


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