I've been meaning to try Thomas Pynchon's work for ages, and I really expected to like it. I guess this one just wasn't for me. While I love zany conspiracy theories, most of the plot line just bored me. I guess I'm missing something.
I wish I could write a profound review, stelliferous with jargon and theories. Pynchon, for me, was associated with hipsters and students of literature loving their post-modern analyses disappearing into some sort of meta-xyz or deconstruction. He had never been on my list of authors to read, mostly...
The writer is very clever and has great analogies and symbolism. However, I didn't like the plot at all. It jumps from one event to another as the main character follows a conspiracy. Most of it is chaotic, though that's the point of course since entropy and breaking conformity are themes of the boo...
The writer is very clever and has great analogies and symbolism. However, I didn't like the plot at all. It jumps from one event to another as the main character follows a conspiracy. Most of it is chaotic, though that's the point of course since entropy and breaking conformity are themes of the boo...
This short little book kept fascinating and frustrating me. But what else would you expect from a book that can be considered both a great postmodern work, as well as a great parody of postmodern writing? Pynchon himself tended to look down on his own work as he aged, and yes the book does have it's...
Awesome... (wow!)... and to think, this is the book that P. didn't like..What is Tristero.... Is it Death...? a vast and dark reactionary conspiracy at the heart of America, bent on undoing our youthful liberties...? the fathomless, nameless core of the epileptic moment...? cosmologically-speaking.....
I finally read this because I’ve never yet managed to complete a Thomas Pynchon story. I managed to finish this novel only because it’s short. I’m left confused about many things, but not about this: I enjoy interesting and different books, but books loaded with pretentious intellectualism bore me t...
We Await Silent Tristero's Empire. Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn.This was the first of Pynchon's books that I read and it's the kind of book I keep coming back to. I've read it at least three times and will probably read it at least a few more times.
A way shorter, funnier, zanier less pretentious version of Foucault's Pendulum, only written twenty years earlier. In some ways anyway (in terms of theme, not plot). This is not Gravity's Rainbow but it's still better than most of the novels of the twentieth century. In some ways Pynchon is like a...
Uninterrupted badassery. Only demerits are extreme brevity and a single rhetorical default--really just a pet peeve of mine--wherein one Duke of Ercole is described as "[s]urrounded by treachery on all sides"--grrrrrr.Includes obligatory play-within-play and numerous metatextualist's references.Cas...
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