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

[Bekah]

I think that's what does it for many of us - our introductory experience of Pynchon is so intense that whatever book we came across first is the best way for folks to get into him/his works.   My first was Vineland.  

Bekah

On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:37 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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