Pynchon exorcises even more ghosts of america’s pasts in this polished gem of a novel, as gripping and brilliant as it is classically, Pynchonianly weird - just don’t expect to get much out of it unless you are either very very sharp or have a lot of time and energy to work thru it.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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