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[mamculuna]

take the WHAT BAD BOOK ARE YOU test.


and go to mewing.net. not as good as reading a good book, but way better than a bad one.


Thanks to the_red_shoes.

And this is funny to me because I wrote my MA thesis partly on Pynchon (but Gravity's Rainbow--maybe that's even more grating) and also had a colleague who made every one of his multitudes of first-year comp students not only read Crying of Lot 49 but write a research paper on it. I would not have enjoying grading those papers, either.

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[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I have had nightmares concerning the family von Thurn und taxis ever since reading it.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Pynchon takes creepy to a whole new level.

[usedtobeljs]

I occasionally -- by accident -- put a stamp upside down and then think, "Oh no what message am I sending?"

;-)

[hugs]

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

::draws picture of horn::

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

hee. Only only did my older one read "Gravity's Rainbow" at age 16 on his own, but he liked it! I have never attempted it myself.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I liked it, too! That's part of what makes this perfect. However, some later Pynchon has not interested me.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

I turned out to be Beowulf, and I could live with that.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could too. But the poem only! Not the recent film. I know you're not the film, btw.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

True. I hardly ever go to films. I can't even remember the last one I went to, offhand. "Return of the King"? No, but something where the previews were all winter holiday shows, and the thing I was seeing was in May or June. Ah, right -- "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", or whatever they called it this time. And the previews were "Dark is Rising", "Golden Compass" and "Enchanted".

Gah. No film for me.

[wombatina.livejournal.com]

LOL! I just reread this last year. It was a lot funnier than I remember. Still incomprehensible but thoroughly enjoyable. Have you read his book on Mason and Dixon? It's large and written in colloquial tongue so I haven't tried yet.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I've heard really great things about Mason and Dixon, and also Against the Day, but for some reason haven't had the right energy for reading him lately. I really did not like Vineland though. The length and dialect don't bother me, don't know why I'm not reading him. The other one I liked was V, very funny and very horrible. I actually remember a line from it, more or less: "Rachel Owlglass moved up the street with a kind of sensual trudging, as if she were knee-deep in snow, going to meet her lover."