Not even close to Pynchon; BUT is Harold Bloom. Misc.

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Hyperion novels are both great.




Michel






On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM +0200, "Jochen Stremmel" <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:










I think it was Stephen King, himself a good storyteller, who said something
like: Dan Simmons writes like God.

And I always reckoned, he meant the Hyperion tetralogy.

Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 11:53 Uhr schrieb ish mailian :

> Bloom resented the resentment because he was a pure poet; a
> Romantic-Jewish-Gnostic light flamed from his flared nostrils; he was
> a dragon who guarded the philosopher's stone.
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:09 AM Mark Kohut  wrote:
> >
> > has anyone ever read Dan Simmons? All those books, in the déclassé
> > genres, horror, sci-fi. I have wanted to since someone I respected wrote
> > about him as the neglected chronicler, sea-changed, of our violent era.
> >
> > But I never have read him and can't see that I will now. Except a very
> > little.
> > The free books shelves in my town had a copy of Olympos by him on it.
> > A sequel to Ilium, and therefore Iliad Trojan War-related. So, those
> themes.
> >
> > Reading just a couple pages, which are Helen of Troy reflecting on her
> > nine-days
> > dead husband Paris, after her current lover Hockenberry leaves her bed
> > feeling shameful again,
> > all set within a world where the enemy now uses bombs to try to penetrate
> > the force shield and
> > ..."Helen catches a glimpse of that retreating chariot --a brief gleaming
> > as bright as the morning star,
> > pursued now by the exhaust trails from the Greek rockets."
> >
> > Wait until my next 'across the sky' post, it's everywhere.
> >
> > And this line: "Helen of Troy does not give a fig about machines".
> >
> > But I have sent this for this: the dedication. Which is "This novel is
> for
> > Harold Bloom, who---in his refusal
> > to collaborate in this Age of Resentment--has given me great pleasure."
> >
> > Opinions welcome.
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