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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It's a fun and interesting book BUT DON'T READ IT, read Gravity's Rainbow which has a similar structures, themes, and characters but is much more developed and hilarious. Only people obsessed with Pynchon should read this. (  ) phette23 | Oct 19, 2009 |  Can I give this book seven or eight stars? An incredible book by itself, this work is remarkable when one remembers it is Pynchon's first novel. Funny, disturbing, dense, absurd, horrific, casual. There are some sentences and paragraphs that only a dozen writers in the world are capable of matching. Throughout reading I found myself drawing connections to Bolano's 'The Savage Detectives': The Whole Sick Crew vs. The Visceral Realists, V. vs. Cesárea Tinajero, and so on. I wonder if Bolano read Pynchon? (  )2  inaudible | Aug 25, 2009 | I've the deep convinction that this book is completely nonsense. Still, it's beautiful to read... (  ) Ramirez | Mar 15, 2009 | V was, in all honesty a wonderful book. My joy in postmodern fiction is extremely limited. While I did not absolutely enjoy it, I do recognize that it was well written. Unfortunately much of the book involved me declaring something along the lines of: "Wow, I have no idea what is happening!" My struggling mind was relieved to see the conclusion of the book and the conclusion of the twisting tale. As I have come to understand, all of Pynchon's novels take the same overwhelming approach... I look forward to another book of his is the future. (  )1 tyroeternal | Feb 4, 2009 | At the time a new experiment in fiction writing. The storyline is not linear - more like following a web of tenuous connections between characters, places, and events. A challenging read. ( ) andersonden | Dec 23, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0060913088, Paperback)Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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