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The funniest thing about TP is readers who take his work deathly seriously, flying in the face of how funny and unserious he is.

The organization SMEGMA, for example.

Lew Basnight!

I didn't expect this book to be as funny as it is. I've laughed out loud a handful of times now. The writing is also exquisite.

Almost there. There's an occasional really great line or insight, but it's sorta meandering.

Running on fumes with this one tbh. She can write, but this book in particular is dragging.

Keep thinking about it as Area X is just a haunted house.

The Lowry stuff is a slog to read. Just ugh.

I had to start this one over because I had forgotten who anyone was.

I've read everything Pynchon has written to date, and this is the first time he's ever made me cry. Just stunning.

Mason's drive with his son, the son who the very existence of scared him so much he took the Pennsylvania contract and ran off to America with Dixon, all culminating to finding the unmarked grave. Fuck.