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reviewed The crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Perennial fiction library)

Thomas Pynchon: The crying of lot 49 (Hardcover, 1986, Perennial Library) 4 stars

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

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5 stars

Wonderful. I was wary of Pynchon for a long time. A reputation for denseness or difficulty, obscurity, but this was like a burst of light. OK, I couldn't say what the story was about in every detail, but it enjoyable in it's self and also for the gap it filled in my literary education.
Drugged up, psychotic conspiracy theories have never been written so well.