The Crying of Lot 49 (Hardcover)

from brenzi

Are you old enough to remember the sixties? I certainly remember them very well but sometimes I wonder if I was living in some sort of parallel universe because the sixties I was a part of wasn't nearly as chaotic and drug-fueled as the one that is most often portrayed in books and movies. This b...

from myfanwy

The Crying of Lot 49 gives you every bit as much flavor of Pynchon's remarkable writing style, without the self-indulgent obsessions that makes Gravity's Rainbow such a slog. Pynchon really is remarkable. In a slim novel he creates a mass of characters, a secret society, a conspiracy theory going...

from GarySeverance

Thomas Pynchon's books are always interesting and unpredictable. It is worth the effort of the reader to understand the details of the pages, even when they appear to be random. The reward is an increase in mental "entropy" that allows for increased connections of ideas as the book progresses. Th...

from steve02476

Didn't like at all; not my kind of book. The only reason I finished it is that it's very short and I've been intending to read Pynchon for about forty years, so I thought I should really give it every chance. I don't doubt that he's a talented writer, but no more Pynchon for me unless someone con...

from LynnB

This is the story of Oedipa Maas, a Californian housewife, who is made co-executor of an ex-boyfriend's will. It's a satire, written in 1965. Since I was born in the last 1950s, I guess a lot of the references escaped me. I found the book hard to get into and not very interesting. That being said...