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Title: Waste of Time
Review: This is not literature. Pynchon writes liberal, paranoid diatribes against any and all institutions, especially conservative ones. Pynchon certainly possesses the skills of a writer, but he lacks the discipline and creative drive of an artist. His wandering narrative style is meaningless - comparisons to works by Joyce are absurd. The further you delve into Pynchon's work to seek out deeper meaning the closer you come to realizing that there is no meaning - just variously colored blotches and stains, pasted together for shock effect. If you would like to try something intelligent that reads along similar lines, try Philip Dick, an under-appreciated 20th century American writer who possessed talent and vision superior to anything Pynchon could approach.
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