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Title: Since when does not liking a book you like equal idiocy?
Review: I DID read all of this novel and I DID understand it and it was a shameful, sad spectacle. The characters (and, hey, a novel is supposed to have them) were more wooden than mannequins. The story, when finally discovered, sounds like a bad LSD flashback and a very silly one to boot. No one denies Pynchon's intelligence. I do not deny the intelligence of the unabomber either. I just think what he wrote was tripe (Like what Pynchon writes).I thought this novel was a complete waste of my time and it amazes me to hear so many praise what I think was paranoid and resembles silly cult literature. My father had a book back in the fifties sponsored by an extreme right wing group that was equally paranoid and absurd. The whole tone of that bizarre publication resembles the tone of Gravity's Rainbow. But at least the fifties book had some unintentional humor in it. Pynchon couldn't write anything funny if his life depended upon it.
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