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		lucidone on Sept 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928) I had this same problem with Pynchon. Try David Foster Wallace, much more approachable.

officemonkey on Sept 24, 2016 [–]

Try reading "Inherent Vice." It barely reads like Pynchon. Or rather it's Pynchon writing the Big Lebowski like Raymond Chandler would, if Raymond Chandler were a hippie.

labster on Sept 25, 2016 | [–]

I don't even know what this means but I'm upvoting it anyway!

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