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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060913076
ISBN: 006091307X
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: November 07, 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Sales Rank: 1483
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes" praised the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune agreed: "The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."
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I must disagree with the reviewers that found "Crying of Lot 49" unreadable. It's as easy to read as the back of a cereal box (and just as edifying - perhaps less so). I can imagine the author giggling as he came up with the silly character names. The names are about all they have to distinguish them - the characters are so lacking in depth as to make Cap'n Crunch look like Captain Ahab in comparison. The nonexistent plot consists of nothing more than a string of pointless incidents that could ... Read More
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Because it's so short, *The Crying of Lot 49* is likely the book those coming to Pynchon for the first time are most inclined to sample. It's not, however, anything but a shadow--in this case, a foreshadow--of his really great work. So one shouldn't form a definitive judgment on Pynchon based on what one finds here. Still, it's not a bad intro given the length and complexity of Pynchon's better-known signature novels.
The story, stripped to its barest essentials, goes something ... Read More
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A great cross-section of society, where a middleclass suburban woman's psyche is cleaved into multiple parts and has to deal with more than what the world is outside of her expertise. Written with a Carrollian whit and humor, "Lot" exposes the idiosyncratic. No matter what interpretation one chooses, "Lot" is a hysterical journey, surrounded by the absurd and possibly one of the biggest jokes played on the literary public, where red herrings bound from page to page and reality is weaved by those who ... Read More
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God knows Pynchon isn't for everyone. However, if you are thinking of taking on the adventure his work can be, I highly recomend starting with The Crying of Lot 49. In this novel, you are going to find all of his major themes (some being paranoia, difficult even obscure scientific references, and long twisted digressions). Why start here? This novel is his shortest at just over 200 pages while most of his novels run 700 or more pages. Of his six works to date, this is the most accessible to new comers. ... Read More
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The Crying of Lot 49 must have seemed incredibly witty when it first appeared in the mid-60's. This satire, which follows the twists and turns of Oedipa Maas' adventures in being the executor of a dead friend's will is a satire on Southern California culture in the mid-60's.
The back of this book compared it to Joyce's Ulysses; while I won't doom Lot 49 with such unfortunate company, it, like Ulysses, is probably more admired by critics than actually enjoyed by readers. The prose is intentionally ... Read More
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