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Loading... Vineland (original 1990; edition 1990)by Thomas Pynchon
Work detailsVineland by Thomas Pynchon (1990)
None.  HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 |  There is a great deal to say about this book, but here I'll just say I think it is Pynchon's greatest and most central novel. It is not his most dazzling, brilliant, sprawling, outwardly ambitious, and all those other things professional reviewers like to say. But I think it has the most heart and is his best effort to express what has gone wrong with this country of ours. And, it is beautifully, carefully written, in a sustained, consistent way. (  )1  owenino | Dec 13, 2012 | OK, others have reviewed this in a more documentary/empirical sense. Let me do what I generally avoid, namely give a personal reaction to what has, as I said, been well-enough described by others. Pynchon's immediate predecessor-book, the much-idolized GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, showed me a writer who had definitley gotten, as we say in the country "above his raisin'", meaning, for those who don't get it, that he had become literarily smug, flabby, and self-involved. Now this book VINELAND shows worse: clear evidence of a literary mind out of control. This book was heavy-handed, a yawner from base to apex. (  ) HarryMacDonald | Nov 15, 2012 | For ages I hadn’t a clue what was going on, so confusing, but in such an entertaining, beguiling way that I ploughed on, regardless. Then, it was as if someone threw a switch in my brain and All Became Clear and then I started to love it. I probably need to read it again now - at least once. Vineland reads like Jack Kerouac trying to write a ‘real’ novel and there’s nothing wrong with that. ( ) MayaP | Jun 16, 2012 | I've lost count of all the aborted attempts I've made to read this book. I devoured Gravity's Rainbow and V., but Vineland stops me dead in my tracks every time. Howard Bloom--a Pynchon proselytizer--said that there's not one worthwhile sentence in it, and although I don't agree with that, every attempt I've made to read it has left me with the distinct feeling that the work as a whole is probably not particularly worthwhile. RodV | Feb 18, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
No descriptions found. Follows the orbits of old acquaintances headed for a less than harmonic convergence in Northern California in 1984. (summary from another edition) |
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