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This volume is slender (as opposed to Pynchon's 900+ word-marathons that he calls "novels") but packs a punch. I bought it after reading "Entropy" in an anthology at school. Good if you're w...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 21 10:21:57 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 11:00:29 -0800 2008
In the intro Pynchon spends a great deal of time exposing what he feels to be faults in the following stories, mainly attributed to his youth – he wrote these stor...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 14:18:09 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 15:05:48 -0700 2009
As he notes, some of these stories are not very good (namely, 'The Small Rain' and 'Under ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 14:48:28 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 19:16:33 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Tue Mar 11 08:28:04 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 02 07:45:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 10:43:25 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 17 16:09:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 22:55:14 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 16:24:29 -0700 2007
Not is best work, but it isn't really supposed to be. This collection is supposed to show his growth as a writer, and it does. Having read most of his other stuff, it was nice to see some of his characte...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 11 07:02:40 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 07:03:48 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 07:09:24 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 07:11:16 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Aug 18 15:17:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 15:18:22 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5814