I finished it last week and I feel like I want to read it again. I love how Pynchon never hesitates to let a character dissapear or not let everything come to fruition. The combination of the bizarre and the real is spellbinding. Cyprian Latewood may be the most interesting character ever written and Yasheen Halfcourt a close second. THe book is sad, haunting, arousing, and like all of Pynchon's other work, comical. When I read him, I feel like I had achieved something in understanding a... (show more)

I finished it last week and I feel like I want to read it again. I love how Pynchon never hesitates to let a character dissapear or not let everything come to fruition. The combination of the bizarre and the real is spellbinding. Cyprian Latewood may be the most interesting character ever written and Yasheen Halfcourt a close second. THe book is sad, haunting, arousing, and like all of Pynchon's other work, comical. When I read him, I feel like I had achieved something in understanding a small part of it. (show less)