34the search for meaning and purpose the characters in the novel are all searching for meaning and purpose in their lives and t...  Read More

34the search for meaning and purpose the characters in the novel are all searching for meaning and purpose in their lives and the novel explores how they cope with the uncertainty and confusion of the world around them  Read Less

He can take a period recent or otherwise and birth a character there quickly and effectively and suddenly you are wondering how...  Read More

He can take a period recent or otherwise and birth a character there quickly and effectively and suddenly you are wondering how thomas pynchon is so intimately familiar with the plight of the dodo bird on the island of mauritius  Read Less

The book doesnt want to be treated like high art it wants to roll around in the gutter with the rest of us dopers

The book doesnt want to be treated like high art it wants to roll around in the gutter with the rest of us dopers  Read Less

Not for the first time pynchon wrote scenes here that made me deeply uncomfortable

Not for the first time pynchon wrote scenes here that made me deeply uncomfortable  Read Less

And so im short of a fivestar rating here

And so im short of a fivestar rating here  Read Less