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"You're just replacing the mystery with a word," said Wolf, "which is simply another mystery. Keep going like that and you'll end up practicing magic."

There's a wonderfully strange, somewhat clinical humor to this.

Finished Mr. Norris Changes Trains. 4 stars.

Sure he wrote great music. But did you know his nickname was "The Velvet Gentleman"? Clearly a man in need of further investigation.

Sure. Why not? I can't think of a better way to start the new year than revisiting the seedy underbelly of mid-century Los Angeles.

My best job ever!

This book has a corrupting influence. Instead of doing more important things, I can't stop reading!

Now, this is what I call a thrilling page-turner!

Rereading this along with Tale of Genji.

Excellent - this edition has illustrations for gaijin like me!

Hell's bells! The story "Hell Screen" is amazing but probably not such a good idea to read it so late at night...

Good creepy undercurrent to the first two stories.

Perfect follow-up to Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet

Starting over with this one even though I'd read a significant chunk of it. Even without finishing I think this may be a top 10 book!

"People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats."

Sid Vicious deserved an even slower and more painful death!

Keith Richards, Heroin, Rock 'n' Roll!

Wow, this is wickedly good!

After all this exhilaration, I'm finding the denouement to be a bit of a slog. Too much military info.

Nearing the finish line. I am dying to see how he's going to wrap up all this insanity!

Not a single word that I've looked up has been in my dictionary. Either my dictionary sucks or Pynchon is making shit up - or both...

This book is giving me strange dreams.

Finally getting back to this...

I can't believe it took me so long to get to reading this. It is so my kind of book!

It's only rock 'n' roll but I like it - heh.

naughty fun!

I love that the writer isn't a music journalist but a real fan. She's assistant prof. of English and African-American Studies at Princeton!

This book is insane. I'm not really sure what's going on half the time...