Vineland
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749391416 (0749391413)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Playlist added 4/4/2013With this read I officially become a Pynchon fan. I have admired him for years but made it through only one other book, [b:Inherent Vice|5933841|Inherent Vice|Thomas Pynchon|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347697574s/5933841.jpg|6151926], which I thoroughly enjoyed, enough to gi...
A dystopian presentation, but with zombies and ninja magic, of Reagan's United States.Follows a group of '60s new leftists and their antagonists, through use of translucent digressions, elliptical flashbacks, and abrupt changes of perspective, back and forth through several decades.It might read as ...
Un poco decepcionado... Olvidando que es Pynchon, no me parecio nada especial.
I hear there are female ninjas in this one? Awesome.
This is the first Pynchon I remember reading and really enjoying. Twenty years later, the only thing I remember is the worms playing pinochle (a variant of the rhyme I was not previously familiar with)
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