Pynchon and McEwan, friends in the figures in the carpet?

[Carvill, John]

<< Reading some more Ian McEwan, cause I think he and P are some kind of friends. We remember when TRP signed that letter in defense of him re Atonement and his research for it.... >>

Yeah, and that must have been nice for McEwan. I remember around the same time, McEwan wrote one of those 'English authors eulogise American authors' pieces and ignored Pynchon.

I read some excerpts from 'Saturday', and strongly disliked them. At a time when so many hundreds of thousands of people in this country were protesting, marching on the streets, against the Iraq invasion, McEwan produced a book whose purpose - from what I could make out, not admittedly having read the whole thing - is to equivocate about it. Shameful, imho.

I also don't like the way he shoehorns his obvious interest in science into his books, which was one of the factors that made me dislike 'Enduring Love'. That book had a fantastic opening chapter, then got really boring.