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I went to the library the other day and checked out the majority of their Pynchon books, all two of them. Actually, there were three or four books total, but one wasn't a novel and the other was just a double of The Crying Of Lot 49, so it doesn't matter anyway. I got that and Gravity's Rainbow (again).
I'm nearly finished with the first and I've had it for less than a day--it's fairly short at about 180 pages. Pretty good read, albeit a little disjointed. Something about plays, underground mail providers and muted trumpets. Well, more than something, but I would more likely than not have to reproduce entire sections of the book for it to make sense. At least I get the whole WASTE thing now.
Creepy factor of this particular book (book, not story): the book's pretty haggard and someone has jotted multiple notes in the margins, most of which concern paranoia within the characters. Text is underlined and bracketed. The strangest thing I've encountered so far is the phrase "don't trust roy" at the top of an early page; I'm almost done with the bookk and there hasn't been any mention of a Roy.
I'm nearly finished with the first and I've had it for less than a day--it's fairly short at about 180 pages. Pretty good read, albeit a little disjointed. Something about plays, underground mail providers and muted trumpets. Well, more than something, but I would more likely than not have to reproduce entire sections of the book for it to make sense. At least I get the whole WASTE thing now.
Creepy factor of this particular book (book, not story): the book's pretty haggard and someone has jotted multiple notes in the margins, most of which concern paranoia within the characters. Text is underlined and bracketed. The strangest thing I've encountered so far is the phrase "don't trust roy" at the top of an early page; I'm almost done with the bookk and there hasn't been any mention of a Roy.