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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Paperback | Pages: 152 pages

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Original Title:	The Crying of Lot 49
ISBN:	006091307X (ISBN13: 9780060913076)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Oedipa Maas, Pierce Inverarity, Wendell "Mucho" Maas, Stanley Koteks
Setting:	California(United States) Los Angeles, California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (1967)

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Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.

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Title	:	The Crying of Lot 49
Author	:	Thomas Pynchon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 152 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American

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This story reminded me of works such as Robert Shea's and Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus Trilogy" released in 1975 and Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" released in 1988. This is a book written by an American writer (little is known about Pynchon's identity) , released in 1966, telling the weird story of a young married woman, Oedipa (or Oed) Maas, who, quite unexpectedly, becomes the executor of the late Pierce Inverarity's will . Her seemingly tranquil and conventional life turns upside

Y'know I feel sorry for Pynchon. He's gained a reputation as a 'difficult writer'. This problem plagues Faulkner as well. People go into Pynchon's and Faulkner's novels and quickly realise that things happen very differently in here and thus, unnerved by the shock of the new, hastily retreat. It's a pity. My best advice for reading Pynchon? Stop trying to understand everything. If a passage, or a page, or hell, even a whole chapter doesn't make any sense, don't bother yourself over it. Just move

"So, what do you think it's about?" she asked, as she took a preliminary sip from her cocktail. "Entropy, to start with," he replied. "If only he'd known the Holographic Principle. It follows from thermodynamic calculations that the information content of a black hole is proportional to the square of its radius, not the cube, and the Universe can reasonably be thought of as a black hole. Hence all its information is really on its surface, and the interior is a low-energy illusion. Wouldn't you

I'm if anything a fussy writer. The sort of guy who prefers to come up with excuses why all the factors surrounding the writing of some story or chapter aren't quite right, rather than actually sit down and let the thing get written anyway. I like to worry sentences, and I like to worry about sentences that sound like other sentences I've read so many times before. "She got out of the car and looked searchingly up at the sky." There's some piece in me that could never be satisfied with that

Og think nasty writer-man laughing at Og.

so imagine you're browsing through a bookstore on a lazy saturday afternoon. you stop in the pynchon section, and there, out of the corner of your eye, you see this *guy* and he's checking you out. you think, wow! this is one for the movies! does this actually happen? (this is a sexually oriented biased review, sorry)you proceed to chat, laughing at the length of gravity's rainbow. and you go next door with your new books to grab a cup of coffee, which turns into dinner, whuch turns in to crepes

Er...you really have to read it for yourself...Abruptly change the subject...A literary precursor to The big Lebowski but with more about the postal systems of renaissance Europe...The figure of the detective or private investigator merges with the quest tradition, at the end do we find C.G. Jung's Synchronicity? An intricate and cunning plot from beyond the grave? Nothing? Mid sixties American picaresque adventure? It you read it yourself you can make your own mind up, or not.The investigator