Thomas Pynchon

 

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       Thomas Pynchon is a great novelist on par with James Joyce. His book Gravitys Rainbow is not unreadable it is a postmodern epic and it is his magnum opus but he has more than one masterpiece their is no reason to call him unreadable and his works are more dense than William Burroughs and Ernest Hemingway. he is clearly one of the best novelist ever. Yes he was influenced by burroughs and hemingway but pynchons voice is truly unique and innovative hence the fact that the adjectives Pynchonesque and Pynchonian have entered the literary mainstream.

Review posted by: Wan Quixote

       Who put this guy on anyone's list?   Can't make it through the first page of Gravity's Rainbow.  What, was he on acid when he wrote this nonsense?

Review posted by: trollybob

       Maybe people put Pynchon on this list because he is totally unreadable and they figured he must be a genius or something.

Review posted by: trollybob

       That T.P. made this list I think says more about the people contributing to the list more than the author himself.  I think in their quest to find something good to read they stumble across a name they've heard and like literary lemurs take the plunge.  Pynchon is a Hemmingway rip-off or a Burroughs wanna-be.  Plots that are like forgetting what your doing in the middle of falling down stairs and character descriptions that drag on for page after page of vulgar langauge with no other purpose than to use coarse words.  I would liken reading Pynchon to watching the movie "Heavy Metal" sans buzz.  I never really read anything like a novel in an altered state but perhaps I'd like him more if I tried.

Review posted by: fabian wesley

 

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