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Title: Read other Pynchon, please.
Review: This is his first book, he was young, mid-twenties. Of course, it's pynchon, so it's STILL a great book, but all his others are more evolved and thought out. Here, he starts dealing with his classic themes: obscure place, allegories, fractured characters, dark humor, cyclical time, relative space, etc.The problem is, it's confusing in a naive, over-zealous way. (Unlike gravity's rainbow or mason & dixon, which are confusing in an ultra-rational way) Pynchon's technique in all his novels is to create an experience that becomes a consciousness through reading, instead of linearly narrating a story, he gives us impressions only, and a truth evolves. The truth becomes part of the reader, not just part of the pages or the author. It's like pynchon lets the reading write the novel as the novel goes along.Pynchon is a genius, he will change your life. Just don't start with V.
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