I mean the Stephenson... both of them. But Cryptonomicon should be up your street; a huge sprawling historical epic set in multiple eras and countries, tied together by code breaking and conspiracies and loads of nerdy stuff, with a bit of magic realism mixed in and loads of stuff to send you investigating in different directions - like Pynchon but much more so.Eco or Stephenson? I'm more interested in the former than the latter.
He's got a metal hand?You'll hate it version it's the sort of book mr tea would like.
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Ben Lerner pictured shattering the mirror with his metal fist. From TV he knew there might be people behind it in the dark, that they could see his metal fist. He believed he felt the pressure of their gaze on his face. In slow motion, a rain of glass, the presences revealed. He paused it, rewound, watched it fall again. He had a metal fist.
He looks like a total dude, you're just jealous.
He's the concentrated essence of Tea.He looks like a total dude, you're just jealous.
Yeah, all silliness aside, it is pretty good. Baroque Cycle was good too, although maybe a little too long. @droid is well into him.I mean the Stephenson... both of them. But Cryptonomicon should be up your street; a huge sprawling historical epic set in multiple eras and countries, tied together by code breaking and conspiracies and loads of nerdy stuff, with a bit of magic realism mixed in and loads of stuff to send you investigating in different directions - like Pynchon but much more so.
Pynchon is a member of his club, you just don't know it cos he's so secretive.I really can't picture myself reading this bloke. These quotes and photos are agonising.
Nah, there's a different vibe to Pynchon. He's more 60s. This guy seems very 90s. He's like Source Direct.Pynchon is a member of his club, you just don't know it cos he's so secretive.
You have the Alan Pakula Political Paranoia trilogy (Klute, Parallax View, All The President's Men)—Inherent Vice is itself an homage to the JKF/Watergate era paranoia, the same era of the FBI motorcycle accidents Pynchon nods at—so if we're at the high-point in a swell, it's a swell that's constantly rising and ebbing."The earlier era of paranoia in this country was based largely on violent events arid on the suspicions that spread concerning the true nature of the particular event, from Dallas to Memphis to Vietnam. Who was behind it, what led to it, what will flow from it? How many shots, how many gunmen, how many wounds on the President’s body? People believed, sometimes justifiably, that they were being lied to by the government or elements within the government. Today, it seems, the virus is self-generated. Distrust and disbelief are centered in a deep need to raise individual discontent to an art form, often with no basis in fact. In many cases, people choose to believe a clear falsehood, about President Obama, for instance, or September 11, or immigrants, or Muslims. These are often symbolic beliefs, usable kinds of fiction, a means of protest rising from political, economic, religious, or racial complaints, or just a lousy life in a dying suburb."
Separate the art from the artist.Droid is into the bald weapons guy?
Not really though it's worth a watch in its own right.I'd say the main thing hanging over Inherent Vice, moreso than JFK and Watergate, is the Manson Family.
I still haven't seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actually. Maybe I should watch that soon. I guess that's another for the conspiracy-ish list too.