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A review by laurencenz
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
5.0
Slightly less random than some of the magnum opi, but still a great read. Excellent review at http://theamericanreader.com/review-thomas-pynchons-bleeding-edge/#identifier_3_10277 that puts all his books within a unifying context of chaos.
Great realistic descriptions of life in NYC.
Also the morality of the interent
on page 420 "Yep and your internet was their (cold war McCarthyites) invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smaller details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absorbing our energy, eating up our previous time. And there's no innocence. Anywhere. Never Was. It was conceived in sin, the worst possible As it kept growing it never stopped carrying in its heart a bitter-cold death wish for the planet and don't think anything has changed, kid."
and then 12 pages later:
Maybe what we've been living through is just a privileged little window, and now it's going back to what it always was..... Look at it every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothing but portals to Web sites for what the Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping, gaming, jerking off, streaming endless garbage -
In the end I came round to it as one of his best.
Great realistic descriptions of life in NYC.
Also the morality of the interent
on page 420 "Yep and your internet was their (cold war McCarthyites) invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smaller details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absorbing our energy, eating up our previous time. And there's no innocence. Anywhere. Never Was. It was conceived in sin, the worst possible As it kept growing it never stopped carrying in its heart a bitter-cold death wish for the planet and don't think anything has changed, kid."
and then 12 pages later:
Maybe what we've been living through is just a privileged little window, and now it's going back to what it always was..... Look at it every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothing but portals to Web sites for what the Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping, gaming, jerking off, streaming endless garbage -
In the end I came round to it as one of his best.