Wiliam Gibson favored this

[Mark Kohut]

Gotta just second Jochen's one line of reasons re TRP here....
for myself, I find book after
book, new and praised which I try to look at--old bad habit---
that I am unable to read (this is about me not most books) because
it seems ...so small in the present or so beyond real historical
insight---even if it is
an historical novel or in the historic recent past--that I just stop.

To me, Pynchon has now made so many other probably good books simply
impossible for me to read....

And, yes, his historic vision is what raises him for me beyond most others
of his time
or later. Barth, DFW for me...
Your milage and insight may vary...I KNOW my P fanboyness ruins much
judging
of others and of P. So it is.

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
>>>> <https://twitter.com/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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