by Thomas Pynchon
bookshelves: fraudio, spring-2013, adventure, african-continent, amusing, biography, britain-england, dodgy-narrator, doo-lally, epic-proportions, execution, historical-masturbation, historical-fiction, london, fantasy, north-americas, philosophy, poetry, published-1997, sciences, seven-seas, slave...
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I liked this most of the books by Pynchon I've read so far. There's some genuinely beautiful writing in there, and the personal odysseys of the characters are all the more compelling for being refracted through a kind of mad inventive genius that is able to blend 'realism' quite seamlessly with the ...
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