I just zoned out throughout the whole book and nothing happens. It was bad, angering, boring and a waste of my time. It's interesting to note here that his prose style and approach is shifting closer to his signature voice in GR. As for the rest, I found the book to be depthless and it doesn't held up well with the previous two. It does a great job at conveying the sense of paranoia of the character, and I myself, by the end, felt as paranoid as Oedipa. He doesn't find his voice yet, but I really admire the self-confidence, the earnestness and ambitiousness of his young, beginner, still-new-to-the-field, prose style. I also like his prose here, and I especially like seeing his writings evolved over time. didn't age very well in terms of its humor, if there's any, and that many of the humors went over today readers' heads). It's also his most humorless book, in that it doesn't revel so much in jokes and humor (or maybe it could be that V. It's also unique in his entire bibliography, in that characters behave more like actual people and were a lot less cartoony, quirky and zany than the characters in his other books. In the end, it makes for a very disorienting, very dizzying, very unreal and haunting read, lingering in your mind long after you close the book, like waking up from a fever dream. The confessional chapter is by far the worst chapter I ever encountered in the whole book. Stencil's storyline, although impressive, can be very difficult and tiring to read, especially towards the end. I enjoyed Profane's storyline more, since I find it more enjoyable to read. We get to see two different route to his ouevre, Profane's story being light and easier to follow, in contrast with Stencil's historical chapters, which is bleak and complex.
Here, we get to see him mapping out his themes and concerns that will haunt his later works. is truly impressive as a first novel, especially when you consider that Pynchon was only 26 when he wrote it. It's not a perfect book, it has a lot of flaws here and there, but I like it a lot more than anything I've read by him. I really love DL, Takeshi, Zoyd and Prairie. VL, in contrast to the aforementioned novels, has heart and is optimistic and uplifting. I really like the melancholic and nostalgic tone it carries, and I especially like the emotional response it evokes in me, that I didn't get with V. It's my favorite Pynchon novel, and it's what made Pynchon my favorite author.
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