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The two...more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 4 6 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 22:55:19 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 16:34:22 -0700 2007
I should have known, however, not to start reading him now, when I'm crazy-busy with school and work. Pynchon is famously difficult and de...more...]]> 529488 0060913088 9780060913083 86 12 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175560583m/529488.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529488.V_ 5 4 false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 09:22:32 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 14:23:38 -0800 2008
Like Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon's first novel (published, I think, at an astonishing age 26) is concerned with questions of life and death, here both at the internal, personal scale of our relations to people, things, and the outer wor...more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 2 5 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Feb 05 20:51:08 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 20:53:31 -0800 2008
“It is something less than heaven
To be quoted Thesis 1.7
Every time I make an advance;
If the world is all that the case is
That’s a pretty discouraging basis
On which to pursue
Any sort of romance.
I’ve got a proposition for y...more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 5 3 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 15:24:25 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 10:54:22 -0700 2007
There's something very appealing about this attitude in a novel. ...more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 1 5 false Fri May 02 15:36:06 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 03 17:39:34 -0800 2008 Fri May 02 15:36:06 -0700 2008
EDIT: I decided to try reading it again.


have you ever had the feeling that an author is simply trying ...more...]]> 32760 3499137305 9783499137303 37 5 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393498m/32760.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32760.V_ 5 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Thu May 17 15:46:33 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 16:07:02 -0700 2007 The Crying of Lot 49 and the sprawling behemoth Gravity's Rainbow lies V, a book that's neither long nor particularly dense but still finds space for Pynchon's trademark historical digressions and lyrical flights of fancy. Pynchon's first novel is a thrilling mish-mash...more...]]> 529488 0060913088 9780060913083 86 12 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175560583m/529488.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529488.V_ 3 2 true Sat Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Feb 17 17:28:11 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 17:28:11 -0800 2008 Alright, I admit it.

I DID read it, but with a problem. I didn't get it, I know I didn't.

After all the overlapping narratives I lost track. I reread the first 100 pages and their sheer jolt of electricity just got to me. And it picks up!

Benny Profane is on...more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 2 3 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jul 19 11:18:05 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 11:23:17 -0700 2007
a) Thomas Pynchon may be the smartest man alive.
b) Pynchon's vocabulary is one of the most extensive I've ever come across.
c) Reading Pynchon is tedious and often unpleasant.

Even with the companion and a book discussion group, reading...more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 4 3 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 08:37:50 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 17:34:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 5 1 false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 12:32:31 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 17:57:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 0 2 false Sun Sep 16 15:53:58 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 15:54:25 -0700 2007 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 5 2 false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Sep 03 15:09:08 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 15:26:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979 Wed Jul 02 11:28:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 12:35:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 529488 0060913088 9780060913083 86 12 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175560583m/529488.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529488.V_ 5 1 false Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 06:00:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 13:51:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 5 1 false Wed Dec 17 13:01:14 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 06 10:45:36 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 17 13:01:14 -0800 2008
Moral of the story: our entire trajectory, as animate humans, consists of nothing more than an inevitable progression fro...more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 5 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 18:13:12 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 18:26:43 -0800 2007

You don't come for the plot, cos its tied in a knot,
...more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 5 1 false Tue May 08 08:39:33 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 08:39:33 -0700 2007
"Oh," said Profane.

"I am the twentieth century," she read. Profane rolled away and stared at the pattern in the rug.

***

Like that l...more...]]> 410 0060930217 9780060930219 417 71 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917189m/410.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410.V_ 4 1 false Thu May 31 14:58:45 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 14:58:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5809 2020418770 9782020418775 1857 120 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165548132m/5809.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ 1 0 false Sun Apr 19 07:52:39 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 08:02:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3136171