Status Updates From Vicio propio

Last 70 pages of the book is just Doc moving from place to place and getting exposition dumped on by different characters

I’ve got to say: reading a Pynchon novel is interesting because I do find him to be a naturally funny person—the way he describes things makes me chuckle—but whenever he is deliberately attempting a joke, I find him to be the most painfully unfunny writer I know.

“You don’t want to start smoking, Bigfoot, smokin’s bad for your ass.”
“Yes well I wasn’t planning to smoke it in my ass, was I?”

Really curious about why he decided to return to the same themes from Vineland, published 19 years prior