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Title: Unreadable
Review: To whomever wrote the review from Washington D.C. titled "I would rather read the IRS Tax Guide": Right on! I am a college student who had to read this book for a contemporary American literature class. I couldn't get past page forty. Pynchon's prose is virtually unreadable and I had to give up. I also didn't find Pynchon's humor very funny. As a classical music lover, I didn't care too much for his joke about the Vivaldi "Kazoo Concerto." Was that really necessary to understand what was going on in the novel?Of course, to be fair, I couldn't understand a thing. My class professor told me that whether I liked the novel or not, that this was how the world is. I told him, "No, it's Pynchon's world, not mine." To those of you who consider yourself on a higher intellectual plane than me and the rest of the general population, I say, all the more power to you.But please leave the rest of us alone.
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