This was my third novel from Pynchon and it didn't go as well as i expected. In fact i didn't understand anything. LOL. (However i love reading his novels)
Short review: Okay. I read this because my partner adores Pynchon, and for that reason I'm really glad I did - it hammered home in so many ways how our reading tastes diverge. He favors complex prose and a sense of unease while I prefer well crafted characters and an emotional center. (Which is no...
"Paranoid are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations."In a post-modern world, in a town that on the surface is not unlike many others, there lives a woman named Oedipa Maas. She lives in a town that goes ...
Wonderful. I was wary of Pynchon for a long time. A reputation for denseness or difficulty, obscurity, but this was like a burst of light. OK, I couldn't say what the story was about in every detail, but it enjoyable in it's self and also for the gap it filled in my literary education.Drugged up, ps...
Wow.This was a good book. Following the adventures of Mrs Oedipa Maas as she fulfils her duties as executor of an ex-lover's will, it's a kaleidoscope of characters, images, events and concepts that spiral past at dizzying speed. It's like a weird cross between Catch-22, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detec...
"Blimey," somebody remarked. "Coo." Oedipa took her teeth out of Metzger, looked around and saw in the doorway Miles, the kid with the bangs and mohair suit, now multiplied by four. It seemed to be the group he'd mentioned, the Paranoids. She couldn't tell them apart, three of them were carrying ele...
So, here we have The Da Vinci Code as written by someone with self-awareness. And if that made you want to read this, you shouldn't. I liked this! I thought it was fun, and funny. I have only the barest sense of what it's about.I get the conspiracy, I think. We have an underground, rebel mail system...
The book is a kind of surrealist satire. It's symbolically rich and concerned with truth and identity and revolves around the discovery of a conspiracy, although it is not absolutely clear that the conspiracy actually exists.The book is very readable. Pynchon's prose is deeply enjoyable and he man...
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