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    <body><![CDATA[so imagine you're browsing through a bookstore on a lazy saturday afternoon. <br/><br/>you stop in the pynchon section, and there, out of the corner of your eye, you see this *guy*  and he's checking you out. you think, wow! this is one for the movies! does this actually happen? (this is a sexuall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/377792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm if anything a fussy writer. The sort of guy who prefers to come up with excuses why all the factors surrounding the writing of some story or chapter aren't quite right, rather than actually sit down and let the thing get written anyway. I like to worry sentences, and I like to worry about senten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16539649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure how much I care for Thomas Pynchon's brand of postmodernism. On the one hand, <em>The Crying of Lot 49</em> contains interesting ideas, culminating in a weird trip down Paranoia Lane. On the other hand, the writing is so detached and plain weird that it is hard to emotionally invest in the chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16816691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really want to like Thomas Pynchon.  I love the whole brilliant but reclusive author act, and all the cool kids at the library seem to think he’s the cat’s ass.  But I’m starting to think that he and I are never going to be friends.  <br/><br/>I tried to read Gravity’s Rainbow twice and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75962560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Update: I finished re-reading this, about a week ago. I wanted to let my thoughts percolate before committing to an opinion here. My verdict: Nope, still didn't like it much, but I didn't hate it so much this time. I took it slowly, going back to re-read passages to make sure I had the characters st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6529516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never quite read a book like this before...a book I had to take notes on, and a book where I was left wondering if it was necessary or not in the end. The names and places thrust upon you while reading tease the corners of your mind...beckoning you to associate, connect, describe, make sense ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26460932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was strange on a lot of levels.  Though it is short, every word counts.  Most authors tend to fluff out their stories with lengthy descriptions, and details.  This is the book that would result if you boiled it down to the bare-bones narrative.  Only what is necessary to drive the plot rem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8182388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A slapstick parody/send-up, resembling Kafka meets the Marx Brothers, of sixties culture; targeting psychology, the military/industrial complex, right wing whackos, movies, literature, and views of reality and history. One of Pynchon’s lightest and most inconsequential works (though not the worst ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8635417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, so I didn't actually read this book, but I did try. It sounded cool from the description, and I've often come across references to it. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> recommended it to me, and I tend to agree with their recommendations. I generally give a book about 50 pages to hook me, and this book just irritated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27095620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harold Bloom (and apparently everyone else I know) is clearly out of his G.D. mind.  This book is not hilariously funny.  I did not appreciate the humor in this book at all.  I liked the bit about the play but the book seemed too cutesy and gimmicky to me.  I've been looking at reviews all over and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10655318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Damn damn damn. I really wanted to find the specific copy I read in order to illustrate the veracity of the maxim &quot;Never judge a book by it's cover.&quot; My copy of &quot;The Crying of Lot 49&quot; was super psychedelic and featured Oedipa Maas dancing while the drummer from the teenage rock b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16935557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have one statement regarding this book.<br/><br/>&quot;The Salad of Despair&quot; is perhaps the most useful phrase I have read all year. Thank you, Mister Pynch.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved it. <br/><br/>When I finished reading it, I felt like I had been tricked! The novel is very well constructed, and the author leaves us in suspense. It's as if the whole narrative was going somewhere, leading us towards an unavoidable conclusion, but actually we end up not knowin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29392006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With apologies to all of the people I know who love Thomas Pynchon, I have to say he is just not for me.  I have browsed though his books on the shelf at Borders several times and none have ever appealed to me.  Recently though I decided to try <em>The Crying of Lot 49</em>, which has been described as his m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27464429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed this book, but who knows to what extent I connected it with it. At some point, at a really young age, I used to love looking at my dad's chemical engineering diagrams and stencil tools. They were one my favorite things to look at and play with. I had no idea how they worked. My r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26813759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A really excellent introduction to Pynchon's complex, abstruse, brilliant, bilious, hilarious storytelling. If you're trying this one out for the first time, here's a hint: make a cheat sheet as you're reading of every character other than Oedipa. Every time you learn something about that character,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20291820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After numerous attempts, I have finally achieved what I once thought to be an impossible task: reading a Thomas Pynchon novel. Admittedly, his shortest and &quot;most accessible&quot;, yet I still feel some pride at actually getting through it - and more than that, enjoying it. At first I tried read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17479011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I reached the middle of this book, I thought, &quot;I love this man so much.&quot; It isn't every book that I can read lying in my bed for hours on end without falling asleep (actually, I did take a nap, but not because of this). It's funny, oh so funny, oh so punny...and I do love cheese. For ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15472117">more...</a>]]></body>
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