Thomas Pynchon
Born
in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, The United States
May 08, 1937
Genre
Influences
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The Crying of Lot 49
130 editions
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published
1966
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Gravity's Rainbow
2 editions
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1973
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Inherent Vice
63 editions
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published
2009
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V.
77 editions
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published
1963
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Bleeding Edge
47 editions
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published
2013
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Mason & Dixon
49 editions
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published
1997
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Vineland
55 editions
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published
1990
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Against the Day
45 editions
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published
2006
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Slow Learner: Early Stories
35 editions
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1984
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Entropy
2 editions
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1960
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― V.
― V.
Polls
2015 Fourth Quarter Long Read
1978, The Stand by Stephen King, 1153 pages
1853, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages
1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages
1879, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages
1868, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages
1924, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 706 pages
1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages
1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages
1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1973, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages
1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages
1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
1901, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages
1948, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, 721 pages
1876, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 796 pages
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