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Title: V. by Thomas Pynchon ISBN: 0-06-093021-7 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (55 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Post-Modernist Classic For People Who Hate Post-Modernism
Comment: It took me months of on and off reading to slog through this book the first time. The day I finished it, I tossed it on a shelf, grumbled "What was that?"...and started reading it again later that day. I've read it six times since, each time with growing pleasure at the intelligence, humor, characters, and the understanding that there can be American novels as art that are accessible to any reasonably intelligent reader. Not an Oprah book, no simple answers, or simple questions, but a meaty, densely-described view of a post-war world of ennui and aimlessness. Written around the Beat era, it's like a science fiction novel written by Tom Wolfe and David Foster Wallace, or a mainstream novel by Samuel R. Delany, Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Nabokov. You'll probably hate it, think about it for months and, like me, keep rereading it over the years.
Oh, and it's a lot of fun, too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for Those Who Accept Mediocrity
Comment: In "V.", Thomas Pynchon intertwines his encyclopedic knowledge with his wild imagination, and in doing so, creates one of the most intriguing novels of the 20th Century. Some readers will complain that it is too complex, that there is no standard plot structure, and that there are too many characters. Clearly this is not a book for everyone, but that doesn't make it any less an accomplishment. In fact, I've always considered the creation of something that is not mediocre to be the whole point of literature, or any other art for that matter. Perhaps some readers try too hard to figure it all out as they read through the novel. If you really want to "get" it, you should probably read it more than once. If you don't enjoy it the first time, simply reading for enjoyment's sake, then don't go back to try to "figure it all out." Pynchon's writing is extremely significant and complex. However, if you can't enjoy episodes like the "Suck Hour" of the first chapter or the "Alligator in the Sewer," then the book just isn't for you. Pynchon's got a bizarre sense of humor. Some of us love it, some of us hate it. "V." is indeed dense and encyclopedic at times, but if you can't get a laugh out of the first few chapters, don't even bother finishing it. Perhaps you should just stick to Oprah's list in that case.
Rating: 4
Summary: pretty good
Comment: I wish the entire book was the sick crew and their antics running up and down NYC. Those chapters are great and very entertaining. The other stuff gets a little dry, to be honest.
The nose job section made me wince, hard. On the other hand, the section is in such amazing detail, I now feel like I could do a half-decent job performing a nose job.
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Title: Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon ISBN: 0140188592 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon ISBN: 0060931671 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon ISBN: 0141180633 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Companion to V. by J. Kerry Grant ISBN: 0820322512 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 05 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon ISBN: 0805058370 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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