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Vineland
Vineland | Thomas Pynchon
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“Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . .” On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past. . . . Freely combining disparate elements from American popular culture—spy thrillers, ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies—Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in The New York Times Book Review “that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.”
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Leftcoastzen
Vineland | Thomas Pynchon
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Some Pynchon ,Irving ,and dogs.
Happy #NationalBookLoversDay

TheEllieMo How did you get on with Mason & Dixon? I DNF‘d it but intend to give it another try. 5y
bromeliad Oh man, he is one of my favorites. So glad to find another Pynchon fan on here! 5y
Lcsmcat @Leftcoastzen @TheEllieMo @bromeiliad I‘ve never read anything by Pynchon. What would you recommend starting with? 5y
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Leftcoastzen @Lcsmcat just cuz this one is great but a beast 5y
Lcsmcat @Leftcoastzen Thanks! I picked The Crying of Lot 49 up at a library sale a while back so that will be the one. 5y
Leftcoastzen @TheEllieMo same boat!need to try again! (edited) 5y
Bklover Love the dogs! 5y
umbrellagirl I loved Mason & Dixon, but that‘s the only one of his that I‘ve read. 4y
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Sweettartlaura
Vineland | Thomas Pynchon
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Saw this on the drive home today - it's been too long since I've read a Pynchon novel 😟 - I'll have to fix that soon!

brendanmleonard Great bumper sticker! 8y
CherylDeFranceschi That is too awesome! 8y
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dearelina
Vineland | Thomas Pynchon
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If you enjoy a book that makes you think, takes you on an adventure, and makes you laugh, I think you'll enjoy this book. I will say that Pynchon's novels are an acquired taste as his writing style is quite unique. It's not easy going, but I love it.