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Paranoid Fish

Paranoid-Fish@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

I read books in German and English. I try to explore a wide range of literature, especially fiction, and I also like challenging texts. In general, all periods and genres, with a preference for postmodern literature. I also like magical realism, sci-fi, and sometimes fantasy.

Lese auf deutsch und auf englisch. Ich versuche, mir ein möglichst weites Feld an Literatur, vor allem der Belletristik, zu erschließen; es darf gerne auch mal herausfordernd sein. Grundsätzlich alle Epochen, alle Genres, mit besonderer Vorliebe für die Postmoderne. Magischer Realismus und Sci-Fi gerne, phantastisches manchmal.

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2025 Reading Goal

52% complete! Paranoid Fish has read 26 of 50 books.

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Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (Hardcover, 1997, Buccaneer Books)

The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon and …

Why have I waited so long to read my first Pynchon novel?

Coming from an affinity for the "new weird", his novel feels like post-modernism, yes, but with prefigurative "new weird" sprinkled all over.

The prose slips in and out of being descriptive about the world, about actual things the characters do, and then being descriptive of the meta, the feelings and intuitions, and musings that belong to nobody safe for, perhaps, the eye that watches all of it. The novel reads like interiority. I loved it.

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