An Information Junkie's Guide ...

[Dave Monroe]

Read Thomas Pynchon. Trust me, if you want to use up all the
“bandwidth” in your mind with a steady, confounding, exhilarating flow
of information, there’s always Pynchon. Give “Gravity’s Rainbow” a
shot. It might take you a couple times to make it through the World
War II-set phantasmagoria of paranoia, arcane symbolism, scatological
humor, bananas, puns awful and sublime, rocketry, and sex, but it’s
worth it. And fun! You might as well pick up Steven C. Weisenberger’s
“A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion, too. It’s a page-by-page breakdown of
all the references in the National Book Award-winning novel. It might
drag it out a bit, but you do have a whole month. If you don’t have
the patience for it, though, there’s “Inherent Vice,” the closest
thing to a “beach read” Pynchon has written. It’s sort of like “The
Big Lebowski” by way of Raymond Chandler and Mad Magazine, and it’s
being adapted by “There Will Be Blood” director Paul Thomas Anderson
into a feature film starring Joaquin Phoenix. The movie is due for
release this winter, so brush up!

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