Quite unusual p reference

[Joe Allonby]

Gotta agree on Anathem. I think he got too wrapped up in his own
language and just bored the bejesus out of me trying to read it, to
the point that I didn't give a damn about the story itself.

I think "Snowcrash" caused him to be lumped in with Gibson because of
the virtual world setting, though the name Hiro Protagonist should
have tipped people off to his influence.

"Cryptonomicon" and the "System of the World" novels really owe a debt
to Pynchon. "Reamde" is just a lot of fun, and reintroduces the
partial virtual world setting.  "Zodiac" has nothing to do with any of
the others, but has an additional source of amusement for anyone who
has ever lived in Allston/Brighton. He gets the geography right (and
places the toxic criminals in Everett, right municipality but the
historically polluted river is the Malden not the Everett).

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Christopher Simon
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephenson is really uneven. Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle were more
> fun than not, but Anathem was miserable trash. I own all his novels, but
> Anathem was bad enough to keep me away from the rest for a long, long time.
> ________________________________
> From: David Morris
> Sent: 6/18/2013 1:58 PM
> To: Monte Davis
> Cc: Joseph S. Barrera III; pynchon -l
>
> Subject: Re: Quite unusual p reference
>
> I can't read Stephenson.  His writing is so dull. I couldn't get even 1/2
> way through Crypto. Snowcrash was so juvenile, but I did finish it. No more
> for him for me.
>
> On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, Monte Davis wrote:
>>
>> I finished Cryptonomicon, but wouldn’t re-read it. In retrospect, it gave
>> me the beginnings of the over-stuffed, under-worked-through feeling I got
>> from Quicksilver.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joseph S. Barrera III
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:49 AM
>> To: Monte Davis
>> Cc: 'pynchon -l'
>> Subject: Re: Quite unusual p reference
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/18/2013 08:29 AM, Monte Davis wrote:
>>
>> I liked most of Stephenson’s SF well enough, and was primed to like the
>> Baroque Cycle – I can’t think of anything more Pynchonian in its themes --
>> but could barely flog myself to the finish of Quicksilver.
>>
>>
>> But you did make it through Cryptonomicon? I found that immensely fun and
>> have re-read it a few times. I've never felt compelled to re-read Snowcrash.
>>
>> - Joe