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I read "Vineland" earlier and enjoyed it but mentally set it aside as a lesser Pynchon work. Rereading it in 2018, it becomes clear that this novel about paranoia in the Reagan years is actually a voice from the future, a prophecy of the US in the second decade of the 21st century.
"Then again, it's the whole [insert name of President here] program, isn't it - dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can't you ...more
"Then again, it's the whole [insert name of President here] program, isn't it - dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can't you ...more
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Much more linear story than V, and interested as to how this plot is being revealed.
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