NP: Great Dismal is William Gibson

[rich]

guess i'm the odd man out--didn't like PR much--started off well but
the ending was boring, the protagonist annoyed me, and that name
dropping of brands and shit smacked of the Brett Easton Ellis gang

On 5/27/09, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like PR a lot. The similarities with COL49 struck me when I read it
> too. How about the name "Cayce Pollard"?
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Heikki:
>>
>>> Do you know if PR criticism contains comparisons of Cayce Pollard and
>>> Oedipa Maas?
>>
>> It does, beginning with Lisa Zeidner's review in NYT (19 January 2003).
>> Fredric Jameson
>> also compares PR to Lot 49 in his essay in the New Left Review ("Fear and
>> Loathing in
>> Globalization"), as does Steen Christiansen in an essay called
>> "Transtextuality,
>> Paranoia, and Apohenia." I'm sure there are more - there should be, at any
>> rate, since
>> the similarities between PR and Lot 49, and between Oedipa and Cayce, are
>> numerous.
>> There are also a couple of overt Pynchon references in PR.
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