What to Read First: A Reader's Guide to Unfamiliar Literature
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A Good Place To Start

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The Crying of Lot 49 4

A Bad Place To Start

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Gravity's Rainbow 3
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Categorization is odious. There is tremendous overlap among genres. These pigeonholes are offered only as a convenience.

Thomas Pynchon (1937 - )

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Please consider recommending where to begin reading this author, or where not to. A few words about your experiences reading this author and why you make the recommendations you do will be helpful to other users. If you are the author or have studied this author extensively, please say so.

jorn January 29th, 2006 05:06 AM PST

"Crying" is short and funny and full of good ideas. GR has more of the same but is very hard. V is peculiar, Vineland is dumb, M&D is unrewarding. Slow Learner is very uneven.

tripst3r February 6th, 2006 10:06 AM PST

Ditto on "The Crying of Lot 49," but I found "Mason & Dixon" quite rewarding. Nonetheless, for a general reader it suffers from length and density.

drunken dime February 25th, 2007 08:24 PM PST

Talk about logorrhea!

I finished the book, but I'm too exhausted to tell you about it.

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