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Title: First two pages blues
Review: I was forced into reading this book as an example of postmodernist literature. As I attempted to read it, I found it impossible to read past the first two pages, losing attention with the unusual stream of consciousness style of Pynchon's writing. Finally I made a breakthrough, and found myself in the most tightly-packed, symbolism-ridden novel I have ever read. It was indeed gripping, and it was only my caffeine-induced stupor that prevented me from reading it at a more deep level. It has proved fruitful to me with its example of adversary culture, fighting against the technocracy and alienation of a postmodernist society, and refresingly it was really funny as well. One of the great American novels of the 20th Century, capturing the spirit of the sixties as well as "The Great Gatsby" did with the twenties, and as well as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" captured the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson's paranoid, acid-fried state-of-mind.
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