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Title: Read only as an assignment
Review: First, the positives: this book is very short and recognizably Pynchonian. This combination has led it to be assigned in many literature and writing classes.Unfortunately, it shows Pynchon in lazy and aimless mode. None of the stroboscopic brilliance of Gravity's Rainbow or the human mystery of V is available here. If you don't have time to read one of those books, read some fragment of them, and you will still experience more than by reading this ephemera, and enjoy it more as well.
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