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Originally Posted by Iain
I have a lot of time for Vonnegut and I love Dick (haha...innuendo), but I'd say Gibson wasn't worthy to sharpen their pencils even. He's pretty good, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't really get to the heart of the matter like Vonnegut and Dick do.
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Yeah but Dick can often have a reeeeally convoluted way of getting to the said heart. I remember reading Valis and all the exegesis entries and just thinking "YES. HE/YOU IS/ARE INSANE. I COMPREHEND THIS."
That said, I got 50 pages into Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky before shelving it indefinitely. If you REALLY want a thousand-page piece of convoluted prose to enhance your pseudo-intellectual cred, there it is.