Richard’s Reviews > Bleeding Edge > Status Update

Digging the explanation of the post-dot com bubble fiber brokerage scene and the description of one:

"Darklinear Solutions is a hip-looking chrome-and-neon establishment in the Flatiron District. In the E-rated video game of this, it sells echinacea smoothies and seaweed panini, instead of doped silica to feed depraved fat pipe fantasies that still may linger from the era recently ended." (pg. 146)

Zippy and snazzy so far. Sort of feels like Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling, full of brands and references, and JPod by Douglas Coupland, full of gimmicky zanies and quirky social situations. Seems like Pynchon is supposed to be of a higher caliber, more inaccessible.