I really hope this guy makes a better actor than he does a Web designer. That could take the cake as the worst Web page I've ever seen. Oh, the humanity of it all...
Yes, and 80 years later they found his battered and broken body half way up the mountain. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/ There's a moral in that somewhere...
There might be some superficial similarities with Pynchon (yes, I'm a fan of his...) but I think Neal reminds me more of Victor Hugo. Long, luscious, convoluted plots; vast tracts of exposition (Les Miserables spends about 100 pages on the background to the Battle of Waterloo and another 50 pages on conditions in a Parisian convent at the turn of the 19th Century); and make-you-smile coincidence at every turn of the page. Hugo's work was the ultimate Beowulf writing (most of Paris turned out on for Hugo's funeral), but would anyone dare to claim that Hugo doesn't belong in the pantheon of literary grea
I'm half way through The Confusion. The Baroque Cycle is a masterpiece. Popular or not.
The man's a genius, and he has produced a series of masterpieces. His endings are just right, unless you're a short-attention-span geek who thinks Hollywood makes good films. Go away, all of you.
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I really hope this guy makes a better actor than he does a Web designer. That could take the cake as the worst Web page I've ever seen. Oh, the humanity of it all...
Yes, and 80 years later they found his battered and broken body half way up the mountain. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/ There's a moral in that somewhere...
There might be some superficial similarities with Pynchon (yes, I'm a fan of his...) but I think Neal reminds me more of Victor Hugo. Long, luscious, convoluted plots; vast tracts of exposition (Les Miserables spends about 100 pages on the background to the Battle of Waterloo and another 50 pages on conditions in a Parisian convent at the turn of the 19th Century); and make-you-smile coincidence at every turn of the page. Hugo's work was the ultimate Beowulf writing (most of Paris turned out on for Hugo's funeral), but would anyone dare to claim that Hugo doesn't belong in the pantheon of literary grea I'm half way through The Confusion. The Baroque Cycle is a masterpiece. Popular or not.
The man's a genius, and he has produced a series of masterpieces. His endings are just right, unless you're a short-attention-span geek who thinks Hollywood makes good films. Go away, all of you.