IMO Gibson ain't Pynchon by a long shot

[Joseph Tracy]

Have only read one Gibson book- Pattern Recognition- Here's some notes from an e-mail

 I just finished Pattern Recognitions. Not a bad yarn and good writing skills. Overly obsessed with fashion to the point of seeing fashion sense as a kind of moral force and profound insight. The story of the Russian oligarch's damaged daughter was a little cheesy/manipulative to induce sympathy for a  made up version of a gangster capitalist making life better for all.

Actually I pretty much decided I wouldn't likely be reading Gibson again. 

Pynchon takes bigger risks, is funny, makes sentences and paragraphs that change the way you see history and human nature. I didn't notice that with Gibson. The tech stuff even seems more plausible and precise in BE.

If people enjoy Gibson that is great. Clearly he knows and describes IT culture with insight,   I just think P's interest in IT is his own and has been developing with the tech and the social changes.


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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l