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From: putnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon
Message-ID: <657@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 05:51:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 05:51:26 1986
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In article <25@rtgvax.UUCP> ramin@rtgvax.UUCP (Pantagruel) writes:

>Any self-respecting Thomas Pynchon readers out there...?

Yup.

>Since moving down to Northern California a year ago, I have met only one
>other person willing to admit they had read any Pynchon (and
>"Crying of Lot 49" at that... not even a G.R. reader...)

I have read "Lot 49" and "G's Rainbow", but never (somehow) managed
to finish "V".  Dont know why, except that i found the later stuff much
easier to read (!).  Not that i found "G's Rainbow" easy.  I finally
finished it on a six hour plane ride.  But it was worth it.  
There must be others out there, as i saw a rocket limerick just recently
("There once was a thing called a V2...") (I have been wondering why the
Challenger accident hasnt prompted more such postings...)

>Just curious as to what the prevailing opinion revolves around...
>Was he only a passing fad or have regulars decided to follow Pynchon's
>lead into seclusion...

I have been waiting and hoping that out of his seclusion Pynchon would
come up with something new.  


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