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

[Joseph Tracy]

Vineland was mine too and I like it way more than the critics, but also see it as  great place to start, especially if the reader has an appetite for weird humor. 
But the ending of M&D is indeed unique. 
On Jun 20, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Bekah wrote:

> 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.  
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> Bekah
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> On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:37 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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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