/lit/ - Literature

I just finished this.

Very interesting seeing the differences between this and The Crying of Lot 49. I found it a lot less funny and also a lot more disturbing at certain parts.

Overall though I do think I liked it more than The Crying of Lot 49. It was certainly much more moving.

Some questions I was left with at end were

Was V the bad priest? (I went back and re-read and am convinced that she was)

Was she the spirit of Valletta?

What is the relevance of Eigenvalue and Schoenmaker's views on plastic surgery and the teeth in relation to the way V replaces her body parts?

How does her replacing her body parts relate to decadence?

Wow, this is somber, funny, disturbing and even harrowing all in turn.

I'm 300 pages through, reading about the siege of Valletta.

This is much less light hearted than The Crying of Lot 49 which itself is almost just a perpetual comedy.

I think I'm going to have to take a break after finishing it though before I jump into Gravity's Rainbow. Maybe read something classic, linear and easy.