Wiliam Gibson favored this

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I bogged down when he started in with the heavy-handed Sherlock Holmes references.

LK

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Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

>d-nozzle? Somebody who wrinkles his nose?
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>I couldn't read more than 20 pages of the Name of the Rose. A unbelievable plot to show off erudition.
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>F's Pendulum seemed for me to be in the same vein, better constructed.
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>To compare it with Pynchon's novels that deal with the present or recent past doesn't make much sense to me. 
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>2016-02-20 15:04 GMT+01:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
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>Wha? Wait a minute. Hold on there. No need to be a d-nozzle about it.
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>Foucault's Pendulum is really, REALLY good. Definitely better than Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, anyway.
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>And Prague Cemetery is quality, too.
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>On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>somebody should perhaps point out to that Eco twitter fan that he was no giant at all, quite a good semiotician perhaps but as novelist ... come on. (I really don't know why that dwarf has to appear on a P dedicated list.)
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>2016-02-20 13:09 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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>Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts)
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>2/19/16, 7:44 PM
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>Eco was an absolute giant, but his spectacular novels notwithstanding, everyone should read his article “Ur-Fascism” pegc.us/archive/Articl…
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