pynch thread?
I just started V and oh my word is it magnificent. this is the book infinite jest and even junky (burroughs) tried to be (the first I found OK, and the second was horse shit).
the only other pynchon I read was Inherent Vice but I was like 15 when I read it, so I don't think I fully got it, but I did enjoy it a little bit.
anyways if V. continues at this rate (I finished the first two chapters) it's definitely becoming my favourite book, full-stop.
unfortunately I have a history of books whose beginnings are astounding but then descend into being more meh (e.g. one hundred years of solitude, a portrait of the artist as a young man), so I'm hoping it doesn't also turn out that way with V.