Pynchon's endings

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 7 11:55:02 CST 2007


--- Daniel Harper <daniel_harper at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Much of the pleasure of reading the book comes 
> not from trying to sort out the mystery, but rather
> of all the strange and wonderous things that happen
> along the way.

I second that e-motion.  It's more the frustration
that comes from trying to sort it out ...

> I've seen Pynchon's works described as "Puzzle
> books", but I see it slightly differently --
> the reader is thrust into the structure of the
> book much the same way the characters are ...

Esp. in the case of The Crying of Lot 49 ...


 
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