Wiliam Gibson favored this

[Mark Kohut]

And that is very true....my remarks are purely self-centered and not real
arguments.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Download the official Twitter app here
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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