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“I think I need to let this marinate for a bit before I comment, not sure what I think so far.”
Vicky W wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“amazing”
Peter S wrote this review Wednesday, November 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This was a hard read. My reading time has often ended up with me falling asleep so it is tough to know how much of it is my own tiredness. There were more similarities between this book and what I have read of John Irving. I think it would be interesting to read all of Pynchon and Irving chronologically to see how many connections there are. But that is the job of a grad student in american lit., not me. maybe someday i will do it, but not now.
Craig V wrote this review Monday, November 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The book itself is quite dense. I think i would have to read it a few times to really get it. and if you want answers to the questions a book raises this will leave you frustrated. it ends by saying that there are only two possible solutions to the basic question of the book and never tells you which one. maybe an answer can be divined, but like i said, you would have to read it closely and a couple of times. (or be more gifted than I am at literary interpretation). ”
“One of my favourite Thomas Pynchon books (although all of them are great, and a great deal of them may be my favourite). If anarchy needs a fiction title to truly describe it, this is it. ”
Davy M wrote this review Tuesday, November 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“It was a hard read, at least to me, but I plan on re-reading it again. I was lost a couple times. ”
Jrisidore wrote this review Sunday, November 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“It's insightful, but I find it very dense with metaphors and recurring themes. Need to do a close reread to fully understand. Good though.”
Ted A wrote this review Saturday, October 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Greta book.... you might want to avoid it if you are prone to fits of paranoia.
David K (Boy of Destiny) wrote this review Tuesday, October 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Yes. its that good.”“very imaginative novel. disturbing, at times. always challenging.”
ben s wrote this review Thursday, October 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Impenetrable garbage. Got to page 15, couldn't figure out what was happening, and quit.”
Andy Freeburg wrote this review Wednesday, October 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“A labyrinth of a novel hidden in so small a package. Pynchon encapsulates here the entire post-modern movement, every element is perfectly played throughout the narrative, he then criticises it before ultimately throwing it away. I can't claim to have understood this novel but i enjoyed it so what does the rest matter?”
Luke R wrote this review Thursday, September 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
