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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

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Jul 08, 12

bookshelves: fiction
Read from July 07 to 08, 2012 — I own a copy, read count: 1

"I have a weekend to read!" I thought. "And Pynchon's novels are all now on the kindle! What better than to spend a few hours reading an Official Classic of 20th Century American Literature (tm)!"

I have learned that:

- I'll finally get off my butt and read Pynchon's longer novels.
- A continuum of exists from Nabokov -> Pynchon/Vonnegut -> Davis Foster Wallace that neatly explains my reading habits.
- I will spend the next week looking for loops and horns.

Greatly enjoyed the quick, short read although it leeched all sanity out of my mind. Was a bit shocked how much it read like /Infinite Jest/ in tone and style as, for some unexplained reason, I was not expecting that at all. It's a classic of literature! It's on the kindle so it's trivial to acquire. You should read it, too.

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