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Title: Flawed and funny
Review: To borrow a Tolkien-ism, I have a cordial dislike for symbolism. Put another way, I don't mind it being there, but like fins on a car, I don't want it to get in the way of driving the thing with the top down and the wind whistling through my hair.And "V" is like that -- a breezy and high-spirited ride, symbolism or no. That's why I think all the grad-student rhapsodizing in the collected reviews here are a disservice to Tommy P.'s "V".Sure, there is symbolism galore in "V," but it is nowhere near as goose-steppingly intrusive as you would guess from what you read here. Matter of fact, the book, while containing ample evidence of its author's youth, is fast, funny, and accessible.Read the book. Give it a chance and it will catch you; it will move you in strange and spooky ways. Years after reading "V" I still remember scenes like the wreckage of a Greek island, or Pynchon's unerringly funny slapstick, often set around one his many Profane dopplegangers.Read "V".
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