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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingI've read four Pynchon books, and the only one I was healthy for was Lot 49, which barely counts. For Gravity's Rainbow I was not only violently ill, but also on a cross-country road trip with my also ... Read full review
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User Review - DRFP - LibraryThingSomewhere along the way this novel went awry. For the first half or more I found V an exhilerating dash through various histories and subject matters, with the language to match. Then it started ... Read full review
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| Title | V.: A Novel |
| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Lippincott, 1963 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | Jun 30, 2009 |
| Length | 492 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / General |
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