Fiction

cyclonefence

(4,911 posts)

14. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Sun May 20, 2018, 01:12 PM

May 2018

Second time, actually, and I'm reading it aloud to my ADD-addled husband. It's Pynchon, so it's erudite and confusing as hell, but also hysterically funny. The main character, Oedipa Maas (husband: Mucho Maas) has been named executrix of the will of a former lover and must sort through clues contained in a Jacobean revenge drama, a nightclub where electronic music is live, and band of assassins (or maybe it's just one assassin) who goes back to the middle ages.

ETA Taking a break from All Dickens, All the Time

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

45 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

What Fiction are you reading this week, May 20, 2018? [View all] hermetic May 2018 OP

The Past, by Tessa Hedley question everything May 2018 #1

I could not find this hermetic May 2018 #6

Oops, sorry. Yes, the title does not say anything but, like you, once I read the description question everything May 2018 #18

Penny hermetic May 2018 #20

Yes, both she and Anne Perry include intereting history question everything May 2018 #23

I can't read Anne Perry, murielm99 May 2018 #29

I am almost embarrassed to post. I am reading a Harry Potter prequel fanfiction TexasProgresive May 2018 #2

Aw, don't be embarrassed hermetic May 2018 #7

I love Skip, she's so dainty and demure. Ha Ha TexasProgresive May 2018 #3

Oh yeah... hermetic May 2018 #8

American War by Omar El Akkad. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #4

Hey, this is supposed to be fiction... hermetic May 2018 #9

LOL! PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #12

I'm in the middle of Lincoln in the Bardo, my second time through it. malchickiwick May 2018 #5

Thanks hermetic May 2018 #10

Follett's "Winter of the World" madamesilverspurs May 2018 #11

I'm guessing you read the first one.. hermetic May 2018 #15

But of course! madamesilverspurs May 2018 #16

Booty Bones by Carolyn Haines... Little Star May 2018 #13

I try to do that, as well hermetic May 2018 #17

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon cyclonefence May 2018 #14

I salute you hermetic May 2018 #19

This one is a good place to start cyclonefence May 2018 #32

"Into the Mist" by Lee Murray dameatball May 2018 #21

Horror/Science Fiction hermetic May 2018 #24

Good escapism while on the porch with a cat and dog....:) dameatball May 2018 #27

Reading and listening matt819 May 2018 #22

Koontz at his suspenseful best.. hermetic May 2018 #25

One of my favorites Timewas May 2018 #40

"Trump told the Truth" Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #26

Ha Ha hermetic May 2018 #28

An American President... Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #30

A stack of Donald Westlake comic mysteries The Blue Flower May 2018 #31

Sandford And Baldacci Timewas May 2018 #33

Two of my favorites! Little Star May 2018 #39

Still reading Mockingbird by Walter Tevis. japple May 2018 #34

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan pscot May 2018 #35

Have you seen the Netflix series? Cuthbert Allgood May 2018 #37

i wasn't aware of it pscot May 2018 #38

Righteous { IQ # 2 } by Joe Ide PoorMonger May 2018 #36

American by Day {Sigrid Odegard # 2} by Derek B. Miller PoorMonger May 2018 #41

This book is a must read PoorMonger May 2018 #42

Musical Suggestion : " What It Means " PoorMonger May 2018 #44

Glimpse by Johnathan Maberry PoorMonger May 2018 #43

Musical Suggestion: "Anthem" PoorMonger May 2018 #45