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A review by mintomillk
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.0
breaks my heart to do this to Pynchon, but it has to be done. maybe i'm just not intelligent enough to understand him -- the others in my English university seminar seemed to LOVE his work -- but TCoL49 has never sat well with me. what exactly is this book? what is the purpose of it? and if i get another person telling me "that's the whole point, there is no purpose," i'm going to grab you by the hair and drag you to Albert Camus' sweet sweet embrace and ask you to read that instead.
there's absurdism, and then there's whatever Oedipa Maas is on. i get it, i too think it's spooky how much ads on Instagram are targeted directly to me and whatever new cat shaped item i talked about getting a day ago, but i'm not coming up with grandiose conspiracies just because my mailman has memorized my buzzer code by now. i just don't find it humourous -- and maybe that's my problem -- to have a book entirely about how the characters aren't meant to be taken seriously but you're taking them seriously anyways, get it, hahaha. someone please explain Pynchon to me i am begging to have my mind blown honestly.
there's absurdism, and then there's whatever Oedipa Maas is on. i get it, i too think it's spooky how much ads on Instagram are targeted directly to me and whatever new cat shaped item i talked about getting a day ago, but i'm not coming up with grandiose conspiracies just because my mailman has memorized my buzzer code by now. i just don't find it humourous -- and maybe that's my problem -- to have a book entirely about how the characters aren't meant to be taken seriously but you're taking them seriously anyways, get it, hahaha. someone please explain Pynchon to me i am begging to have my mind blown honestly.