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

[Mark Thibodeau]

Song of Kali is a strong first novel in the horror genre. Dark as it gets,
with real-world horrors out-darking the supernatural elements, such as they
are. Harlan Ellison was an early fan and promoter of that work.

Hyperion, his planet-hopping sf epic, is a ripping yarn and one of the
genre's best, from the era that it was released. I couldn't get into its
sequels.

Of Carrion Dance and The Terror, I have heard good things. But I haven't
read them myself, so can't really comment.

Jerky

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:49 AM <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

> Didn’t know these existed – thank you!
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> Michel.
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> From: Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> Sent: vrijdag 24 april 2020 16:33
> To: Michel <bulb at vheissu.net>
> Cc: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>; Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Not even close to Pynchon; BUT is Harold Bloom. Misc.
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> so you don't know or think much of the Endymion novels?
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> Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 15:18 Uhr schrieb <bulb at vheissu.net <mailto:
> bulb at vheissu.net> >:
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> Hyperion novels are both great.
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> Michel
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:48 PM +0200, "Jochen Stremmel" <
> jstremmel at gmail.com <mailto:jstremmel at gmail.com> > wrote:
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> I think it was Stephen King, himself a good storyteller, who said something
> like: Dan Simmons writes like God.
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> And I always reckoned, he meant the Hyperion tetralogy.
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> Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 11:53 Uhr schrieb ish mailian :
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> > 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.
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> > 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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