Books I Loathed discussion

Just hate.

Well said.

Even The Crying Of Lot 49? I really like that book a lot but admit that I couldn't get through V or Mason & Dixon. The former was kind of dated I thought and so I wasn't willing to struggle through the confusion. The latter I think if I were in the right mood I might try it again.

My husband reads all of Pynchon's nonsensical ravings. I think it's just long winded drivel with no purpose. Blech.

Took a class on him once. Drove me nuts, except The Crying of Lot 49

I have heard it said on more than one occasion that of all the people who own a copy of Gravity's Rainbow, perhaps less than 5% have actually read it.

I loved Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

I could NOT get through Against the Day. After gritting my teeth and ho-humming through the first 200 pages, and still being less than a 5th of the way through, i just put it down, maybe forever. I've since read Inherent Vicewhich was OK. And considerably shorter.

Pynchon is a seriously effed-up genius. Loved 49 and admired Gravity's Rainbow for its sheer WTF-brilliance. I'm still gearing up to read V someday--or anything else, even Slow Learner, which is also on my shelf. He's definitely not for the Sunday reader or any but the most ambitious book club. But if you get his aesthetic, it crawls under your skin forever.

stormhawk wrote: "I have heard it said on more than one occasion that of all the people who own a copy of Gravity's Rainbow, perhaps less than 5% have actually read it."

I'm one of those 5%, and I've read it several times. Fact.

I did a term paper on Lot 49; I was young and foolish and I thought I was very hip. I now think the author needed medication.