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Has anyone here read The Crying of Lot 49? [View all]
The main character Oedipa Maas is really interesting. Pynchon manages to make her subversive without making it gaudy. I think it's beautiful penmanship. Anyway, I love Pynchon on an unhealthy level so I tend to worship his works. But I really do like Oedipa as a sympathetic character even if one interpretation of the novella is that she's psychotic. If that is true, it's not the typical "hysterical woman" form of psychosis. It's classic paranoid Pynchon.
Anyway, if you haven't read it, I'd highly recommend it. I'm nearly finished and it's already on my list of greatest books.
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