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>muh mail

I just finished reading this. I found it vacuous and embarrassingly trite. There were a couple of instances, towards the beginning of the book, that were mildly funny, but hardly strong enough to keep me interested in the book as a whole. And if the intended effect (given that the characters were dull, and the plot both dull and obscure) was to make me feel, having read it, how clever Pynchon was, then it was also a complete failure. What, because he’s done a little workmanlike research into some forgotten byway of history I’m meant to admire the breadth of his grasp?
Remarkably ‘you guys’ over the pond have this twaddle listed in some top 100 American books of the century! You and your lists! Ha! Perhaps you should have stuck to westerns – you were good at them.

Anyway, my question: is there anything of Pynchon’s that’s worth reading?

I just finished reading this. I found it vacuous and embarrassingly trite. There were a couple of instances, towards the beginning of the book, that were mildly funny, but hardly strong enough to keep me interested in the book as a whole. And if the intended effect (given that the characters were dull, and the plot both dull and obscure) was to make me feel, having read it, how clever Pynchon was, then it was also a complete failure. What, because he’s done a little workmanlike research into some forgotten byway of history I’m meant to admire the breadth of his grasp?
Remarkably, I believe ‘you guys’ over the pond have this twaddle listed in some top 100 American books of the century! You and your lists! Ha! Perhaps you should have stuck to westerns – you were good at them.
(And no, Lot 49 isn't some postmodern western, my dear little tryhards.)

Anyway, my question: is there anything of Pynchon’s that’s worth reading?