Wiliam Gibson favored this

[Mark Kohut]

Jochen speaks my experience too. Everyone who does like him speaks of
Foucault's Pendulum as best I will say.
I did not give it much of a chance.

He has seemed to me to be one of the most known and read writers who do
just what TRP, lit critic, sez is absolutely
wrong in fiction: starts with an idea, not life, not perception, not
language, etc.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> d-nozzle? Somebody who wrinkles his nose?
>
> I couldn't read more than 20 pages of the Name of the Rose. A unbelievable
> plot to show off erudition.
>
> F's Pendulum seemed for me to be in the same vein, better constructed.
>
> To compare it with Pynchon's novels that deal with the present or recent
> past doesn't make much sense to me.
>
>
>
> 2016-02-20 15:04 GMT+01:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
>
>> Wha? Wait a minute. Hold on there. No need to be a d-nozzle about it.
>>
>> Foucault's Pendulum is really, REALLY good. Definitely better than
>> Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, anyway.
>>
>> And Prague Cemetery is quality, too.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.)
>>>
>>> 2016-02-20 13:09 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> *Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts
>>>> <https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts?refsrc=email&s=11>)*
>>>>
>>>> 2/19/16, 7:44 PM
>>>> <https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/700843463613538305?refsrc=email&s=11>
>>>> Eco was an absolute giant, but his spectacular novels notwithstanding,
>>>> everyone should read his article “Ur-Fascism” pegc.us/archive/Articl…
>>>> <https://t.co/PDRMGQlQEH>
>>>>
>>>> Download the official Twitter app here
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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