The Postmodern Thread -- Pynchon, DeLillo, Barthelme, Gaddis, DFW, etc.

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Postmodern Thread -- Pynchon, DeLillo, Barthelme, Gaddis, DFW, etc.

Heath: Apr 30, 2008; 🍂🎃🏞️💦

I've just started on Pynchon's "V." I'm about 100 pages into it and enjoying it quite a bit, although the sudden shifts in time period and location are hard to keep track of. It feels like there are a lot of threads waiting to overlap but, having read Gravity's Rainbow I'm kind of expecting them not to. How does V. compare to that book?

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Heath: Apr 30, 2008; 🍂🎃🏞️💦

I'm reading Bleeding Edge and while I can't say that I'm not enjoying it, it's not grabbing me the way Gravity's Rainbow and V. did. I think it's mostly the theme and time period the book's placed in, even though it makes some pop culture references that I would never, ever have expected out of a man 3 times my age. It's not strictly PoMo literature, but did anybody else read it?

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