It's good. Pynchon is conspiracy brained enough to write a book about how US weapons and chemical companies benefited tremendously from WWII and will happily use Nazi war crimes to make money, and how the Ango-American intelligence apparatus will hunt down and destroy anybody that threatens that. Plus the writing is balls to the walls crazy in the best way. A tremendous book.
Let me know if Gravity's Rainbow is any good. I'm always skeptical of the books /lit/ circlejerks over.
It's good. Pynchon is conspiracy brained enough to write a book about how US weapons and chemical companies benefited tremendously from WWII and will happily use Nazi war crimes to make money, and how the Ango-American intelligence apparatus will hunt down and destroy anybody that threatens that. Plus the writing is balls to the walls crazy in the best way. A tremendous book.
I'll probably check it out sometime next year then. I'm busy dragging my heals on the book club right now.
I love Gravity's Rainbow, but I suspect many posters here will find it a touch... "problematic" in it's treatment of race.