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Title: I could not understand the "higher purpose" of this book.
Review: I found the characters to be unreal, as perhaps Pynchon intended, the jokes and characters'names sophomoric, and the plot incomprehensible. Pynchon hits a lot of easy targets - right wingers, Southern California crazies, environmental spoilage and pointless wealth accumulation - but if there is a bigger theme, I couldn't find it. As a reader, I don't feel challenged; I feel defeated.
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