Originally Posted by
Lisa
I'm almost finished with Thomas Pynchon's August 2009 bestselling novel, "Inherent Vice." It's a 'sixties detective story--certain to sell to today's younger market. I've been reading Thomas Pynchon's books, off and on, since 1978--spring semester during my senior year of high school. The kids in my class used to believe (and say in discussions) that Mr. Pynchon, who was then considered to be a reclusive literary figure--mailed in his manuscripts to his publisher anonymously--from foreign office depots and no-return-address-stops like the wilds of Africa--of course, this was all purely mythological; but it left an undeliable impression on teenage novel wanna-read(-er)s and wanna-write(-r)'s! I think he'll be one of the contemporary great twentieth-century American novelists for his fluid prose, unconventional topics, and patchwork collage-imaging style.