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jleopold  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have a $25 gift card to Barnes and Nobles. What should I get?

I'm reading Inherent Vice right now. I think it makes a good intro to Pynchon. I tried to start with Gravity's Rainbow, but found the method a little too hard. Vice is great because it isn't constantly uber-Pynchon, but he comes through greatly at times, and the plot is much more straightforward than Gravity's, though by no means straightforward by any other measure.





user-inactivated  ·  3444 days ago  ·  link  ·  

All true. The greatest disservice ever done to Pynchon was canonizing a single one of his novels at the expense of the others.

In my opinion, Gravity's Rainbow should be read last.