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Ooookaaaaay, I am officially fatigued. I'd always heard that Thomas Pynchon was a difficult read, but jesus. Clearly he is brilliant. Fine. However, he is extremely hard to follow, mostly because he throws out names of people, names of organizations-Ooookaaaaay, I am officially fatigued. I'd always heard that Thomas Pynchon was a difficult read, but jesus. Clearly he is brilliant. Fine. However, he is extremely hard to follow, mostly because he throws out names of people, names of organizations--legions of them!--all made up of course, so that you're constantly asking "Who? What? Wait, how does this relate to..." Secondly, the central story here (though at 150 pages in, it's still hard to tell) is about how the seemingly random pattern in which German rockets are hitting London in WWII...isn't random at all! They strike wherever this psychotic American soldier is having sex! And he really sleeps around, so, you know, lots of rockets. It just really feels like an elaborate effort by an extremely macho male writer to causally link his favorite things: war and sex. As in, "When I f*ck, people DIE! Yeah, stuff blows up, whooo!" I'm over it....more
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