Wiliam Gibson favored this

[Mark Thibodeau]

Just putting it out there that maybe, just maybe, comparing random sample
paragraphs from different authors' novels isn't the BEST way to determine
the relative value of each.

J

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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