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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Postmodern Thread -- Pynchon, DeLillo, Barthelme, Gaddis, DFW, etc.
 
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InnercityGriot
Dec 31, 2008
 Since these postmodern novel threads always see a few shout-outs for Gravity's Rainbow, I'd like to go ahead and recommend another Pynchon novel. Mason and Dixon is a fantastic novel very strongly in the vein of Pynchon's other work, a historical fiction with heavy elements of absurdity. Its writing can be a little daunting, but I have always felt that more than any of his other works, the characters are strong, and there is a powerful emotional core at the heart of the whole thing. The friendship that develops between the two main characters affected me very much by the end. Also, there is an automated duck or something that flies around and is annoying, I remember it being funny.

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