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squidsoup on June 18, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes

Pynchon's "California" novels (crying of lot 49, vineland, inherent vice) are much more readable, and arguably enjoyable. I found Gravity's Rainbow pretty inscrutable.

rxtexit on June 19, 2025 [–]

Crying of Lot 49 is wonderful and I am not really a big fiction fan.

I will have to give Vineland and Inherent Vice a shot. Gravity's Rainbow is just a lost cause for me with the size let alone the content.

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