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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:32:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 13:32:55 1986
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In article <657@steinmetz.UUCP> putnam@kbsvax.UUCP (jefu) writes:

>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 (!).  ...

I started G.'s Rainbow twice before finishing it, and V. three times
before finishing it. :-)

Seriously, V. is a wonderful book that will repay the effort you put 
into finishing it. Some of your favorite characters from G.'s Rainbow
appear in V. (including Pig Bodine) 

What is V. about? V. as Zelig: V. as agent of change in history. The
movie Zelig did remind me of V. as much as anything when it came out.
The trash heap (as Pynchon sez) as metaphor for civilization. And V.
as a junkyard rat, making her/its living from civilization's tendency
toward decay. 
                       -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly