Against the Day
 What I learned from Thomas Pynchon: Five Things that I learned from Thomas Pynchon. 1) There is no holy grail or philosopher's stone or ur-text of any kind; in the place of these illusory dreams of wholeness what we have is the secular epiphany or the [... more]
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a [... more]
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Fiction... or fact?: I am a big fan of science fiction. This book might be classified as such, as it was written to be set in the future when George Orwell published it in 1949. But as time passes, this book is showing itself to not be so much of a story [... more]
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Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Thank You Mr. P: Maybe it's because I'm a Californian but this novel speaks volumes of our exentential existance. Hat's off to a novel that other's would call their "great American novel" but for Mr. P, a tough act to follow after "GR.& [... more]
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Against the Day
What I learned from Thomas Pynchon: Five Things that I learned from Thomas Pynchon. 1) There is no holy grail or philosopher's stone or ur-text of any kind; in the place of these illusory dreams of wholeness what we have is the secular epiphany or the [... more]
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Against the Day
What I learned from Thomas Pynchon: Five Things that I learned from Thomas Pynchon. 1) There is no holy grail or philosopher's stone or ur-text of any kind; in the place of these illusory dreams of wholeness what we have is the secular epiphany or the [... more]
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The Mother of All War Novels: If you have not experienced Pynchon before, getting ready to have your life taken over for a while. I bought this book when I was a freshman in college at the suggestion of my Political Science professor and, after several [... more]
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Mason & Dixon: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership [... more]
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V.
Amazon.com Review: Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where " [... more]
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Mason & Dixon: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership [... more]
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
A good lot for "Lot": A great cross-section of society, where a middleclass suburban woman's psyche is cleaved into multiple parts and has to deal with more than what the world is outside of her expertise. Written with a Carrollian whit and [... more]
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Gravity's Rainbow
Don't overanalyze. Don't underestimate.: There are those that consider "Gravity's Rainbow" the greatest American novel of this, or perhaps any, century. I can't make a case for or against this; I haven't read 'em all. However, I will say that & [... more]
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