BEBE: finished! (possible spoilers - but not really)

[Keith Davis]

It's here!


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Also there's an interior game play scenario in Ready, Player One by
>  Ernest Cline.  That's a nostalgia to the 1980s,  a bit of rather brainless
> romp, maybe even Young Adult fiction - 15 year old variety.  ??  But I kind
> of like the cyber- oriented novels out now.
>
> Bekah
>
>
> On Sep 19, 2013, at 7:19 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm buzzing through it pretty quickly too.
> >
> > I see the Reamde comparison with the game in that novel analogous to
> > DeepArcher, but I see more similarity with "The Walled City" of
> > Gibson's "Idoru".
> >
> > I sometimes wonder how well those guys know each other.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> Well,  well worth the ride -  totally enjoyed it -
> >>
> >> Fwiw,  I read on my Kindle / iPad version and it was so cool to be able
> to highlight the word and get the definition right there.  It was also
> totally wonderful to be able to highlight the word(s) and click Google or
> Wiki for a reality check re references - and it is heavy with the 2001
> allusions and references and with good purpose because they lend a serious
> chord of reality to the tale.
> >>
> >> Imo,  this is a somewhat different voice for Pynchon,   but it's a New
> York voice with a William Gibson feel due to the subject matter - also some
> similarities to Neal Stephenson's Reamde.  After 50 pages I was well into
> it and by 100 pages I knew I was a happy camper.
> >>
> >> The whole thing took me about 10-12 hours to read over a period of 2
> full days.
> >>
> >> Bekah
> >>
>
>


-- 
www.innergroovemusic.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20130919/d652d3c8/attachment.html>