America, highly caffeinated: Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon

[Joe Allonby]

" I found it pretty easy to read too: it’s dense and Pynchon used a
pseudo-18th century kind of syntax, but it’s worth sticking with;
after 50 or so pages I barely even noticed anymore."

I was waiting for him to get to this.  I had the same reaction the
first time I read M&D. It didn't take long to get used to the language
and after a while I stopped noticing it. But as a Pynchonhead, I knew
what I was in for. This additional layer of literary whimsy might be
off-putting for a reader new to the author whose reputation is already
daubed with the difficult brush. I still recommend COL49.


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> Thanks. Lightweight -- but sweet, and refreshingly free of the "daunting
> polymath brainiac TRP" meme, and all to the good if it draws new readers.
>
> I'd still vote for CoL49 as "the best way to get into his works," but
> perhaps that's only because that was the one that hooked me.
>
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