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TCOL49 bursts everywhere with a certain energy Thomas Pynchon, as if some wizard-scientist, has devil-may-carely synthesized from that chaos of information we’re bombarded with, that forever-confused state to which Pierce Inverarity’s will consigns Oedipa Mass and us (I absolutely love the characters’ names: Mike Fallopian, etc.). Where someone of Pynchon’s reputation for crazy is concerned, it's best to roll with whatever punches and roundhouse kicks he directs at us. Failure at this rolling is
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Thomas Pynchon manages to squeeze more meaning into 150 pages in The Crying of Lot 49 than most writers can pull off in twice that time. As always, Pynchon is a riot. His names are odd to say the least. And his counter-cultural brain exuberantly draws up conspiracies that make Glenn Beck look sane.
Pynchon also draws a late 60's America that I know only through the movies. Cheech and Chong. "Gimme Shelter." "Easy Rider" -- which I hated. "Woodstock." "Harold and Maude" -- ...more
Thomas Pynchon manages to squeeze more meaning into 150 pages in The Crying of Lot 49 than most writers can pull off in twice that time. As always, Pynchon is a riot. His names are odd to say the least. And his counter-cultural brain exuberantly draws up conspiracies that make Glenn Beck look sane.
Pynchon also draws a late 60's America that I know only through the movies. Cheech and Chong. "Gimme Shelter." "Easy Rider" -- which I hated. "Woodstock." "Harold and Maude" -- ...more
I am not really sure what to think of this book, I suppose I just didn't "get it" I thought it was written well and had moments of humor but overall I just didn't connect well with the story or characters. This disheartens me b/c I had already purchased another novel by Pynchon and I am less then enthused to start reading it.
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Too weird for me I don't like books with no ending. The prose is entertaining but it should have lead to something I could understand. The puns were fun.
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