Vineland

by Thomas Pynchon | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0749391413 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingBluemchenblattwing of Courbevoie, Ile-de-France France on 3/1/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by wingBluemchenblattwing from Courbevoie, Ile-de-France France on Sunday, March 1, 2015
Thomas Pynchon's first novel since "Gravity's Rainbow".


To be read & released. As far as my memory is correct, I acquired it via BookMooch.

Journal Entry 2 by wingBluemchenblattwing at Paris, Ile-de-France France on Saturday, March 21, 2015
I just did not get the novel.
I had a lot of trouble to get through to get even slightly into the story.

The novel does not make any sense to me and more than once I felt asleep above it, after just a couple of paragraphs. It wasn't able to hold my interest and I'm glad to have got through thanks to the reading challenge I'm participating in - this will be definitely a got riddence from my bookshelves!

What I didn't like aout the book? The back-and-forth between past and present, the drug-confused descriptions, the incoherent storyline, the characters... actually, there is little I did like. The one thing I did was the references to Japan, though some of them seemed phony to me.

My conclusion? I guess this is not a novel for someone grown up at this side of the big blue water, from my generation and who couldn't care less about drugs. Or maybe it's just me.

Journal Entry 3 by wingBluemchenblattwing at Gare de Lyon in -Paris 12e, Ile-de-France France on Monday, March 30, 2015

Released 9 yrs ago (3/30/2015 UTC) at Gare de Lyon in -Paris 12e, Ile-de-France France

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