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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Book Review #16

(I found this image here)

Thomas Pynchon is one of many eccentric author's that has a cult following. People just love this man and his secrecy (I heard that he once jumped out a window to avoid an interview). His paranoia, conspiracies, imagination, and jokes influence every page of The Crying of Lot 49.

It's hard for me to even come up with a short summary of this novel without giving too much, or not enough, away. The main character is a woman named Oedpa (take that, Freud) Maas. She seems to uncover and believe or stumble upon coincidences that lead to a conspiracy theory about a secret postal service that uses garbage cans as mail boxes. Pynchon pokes fun and uses Freud, Americans, postmodern art, the beatles, Nabokov, California, and pop culture references from the 60s.

I know this sounds like something between crazy and too literary, but trust me when I say it is an interesting and fun read. It's even better if you're OK with a book that makes fun of you a little (we all have conspiracy theories, am I right?). You might like it so much that you'll join the Pynchon club and get a tattoo of the conspiracy postal service symbol:

(I found this image and a cranky review here)


p.s. Anyone out there doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)? You can find me here and we can support each other through the ups and down of insane amounts of writing during the month of November.

3 comments:

Sarah said...

Hi! I just found your blog via A Sweet Release and am getting a total kindred spirit vibe! Love this review and I'm also doing NaNoWrimo (sort of) I'm just doing 500 words a day becuase I'm just not THAT crazy. Good luck! I'm going to follow you :)

Bri Lamkin said...

Heeeeyyy, we can be film photography friends! I love film so much. I miss the dark room though which is part of the reason I haven't shot film in awhile: I cant trust the people at walgreens. Anyways, thanks for stopping by my blog. You have a nice little spot over here. I'm interested in your work.

Lo said...

Cool! I need to read this book and I so badly want to enter in this National Novel Writing Month...sounds like a fantastic way to keep up with my writing! :) -Lo

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