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July 30th 2009

The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles

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I’m pretty excited for Inherent Vice …

I’ve taken seven different stabs at Gravity’s Rainbow off and on through my life. After I finish this run on Atlas Shrugged, Gravity’s Rainbow better look out… Because i will have mastered holding books that are too big for my hands.

That damn book took me at least 6 attempts before I finally got through it. Infinite Jest read like Sweet Valley High after that.

Yeah, Gravity’s Rainbow gave me fits, too … but read The Crying of Lot 49, because that is like pure gold, and I think it’s less than 200 pages. Or very short, anyway. And it’s also pure genius.

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  1. dadsbigplan reblogged this from michaeltruly and added:
    Lot 49 is certainly his easiest point of entry. I just wish it had prepared me for Rainbow. I’m man enough to admit that...
  2. michaeltruly reblogged this from ecantwell and added:
    Yeah but The Crying of Lot 49  lacks the literary nerd cred I desire, being the shortest of his endeavors. Though it IS...
  3. ecantwell reblogged this from dadsbigplan and added:
    Yeah, Gravity’s Rainbow gave me fits, too … but read The Crying of Lot 49, because that is like pure gold, and I think...
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