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S'està carregant… The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)de Thomas Pynchon
  
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somnolent solemnities (  ) stravinsky | Dec 28, 2020 |  A convoluted and at times an enigmatic read. One word of advise: take your time if you decide to delve into any Pynchon novel. ( ) kimberlyrivera1473 | Sep 23, 2020 | A twisting tale that gets to the heart of conspiracy and plot in the American underground. Moments of brilliance and a jumpy, choppy style that is both funny and at times really engrossing. (  ) ephemeral_future | Aug 20, 2020 | some people seem to think that thomas pynchon is a nonconformist. after careful investigation, i've determined that his eccentric novels are actually influenced by the school of MAD Nonconformism. (  ) julianblower | Jul 23, 2020 | (31) Gawd - this was close to one of the worst critically acclaimed books that I have ever read. The one star is for being thankfully short. Some sort of a nonsensical satire about a young married woman who leaves home to act as an executor for an old boyfriend's will. Among his varied possessions and real estate holdings is a stamp collection that leads to some underground society that has been acting as an alternative to the formal postal service for hundreds of years. No, I am not kidding. It is dated garbage - I can't possibly review the plot any further likely because I didn't get it, not was I intrigued enough to try. It was all I could do not to skim. In fact, I think I did at times. The whole 1960's California scene (the book I think was written contemporaneously) with women being 'broads,' and it being 100% acceptable for men to grab-ass and solicit every woman they come across, and the LSD stuff, the puerile sexual crap. It just made me sick. And the author did a horrendous job narrating as a woman. Not even close and vaguely misogynistic. I am really not sure what was being parodied. I get that it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously - but then what the hell was the point? This is absolutely not my type of book. post-modernism, absurdist - two things I do not usually like. So I guess this could have been predicted, but I had never read this author whose works show up in a lot of lists of modern classics so I have been meaning to give it a try. Never again - life is too short. (  ) jhowell | Jun 28, 2020 | Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsContingut aTé una guia de referència/complement
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to sort through Pierce's affairs. Pierce, however, did not intend for the job to be an easy one for Oedipa, and soon she becomes ensared in a surreal, hilarious, and puzzling world-wide conspiracy centered around Pierce's strange business partners and dealings. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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