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My first Pynchon and I loved it. It takes about 100 pages to really get into the rhythm because the sentences are pages long and sometimes hard to remember how they started. Also the bookend plot is the least interesting. But I loved the genre-melding pieces about DL, ninjas, the Yakuza and the 60s sets were great too. Mostly, I appreciate Pynchon's complex, imperfect but very real female characters. He writes great women and understands the choices women make and why they may or may not choose
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Really annoying to read, but I felt compelled to finish it once I'd started. I must say though, it had a very satisfying ending. The ending does not warrant me to recommend this book to anybody--unless you like sprawling novels about the radical 60's resolving into the Reaganite 80's, with multi-characters, zig-zagging streams of backstory, new concepts thrown at you from every angle, and paragraph-long descriptive sentences--but if you are compelled to read it, I can recommend hanging in there
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