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Originally Posted by JDK1962
Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. The longest short novel I've ever read, an exercise in literary masturbation in which stupid names (e.g. Genghis Cohen) are considered brilliant literary satire. I know Pynchon is supposed to be a Great American Novelist, and I was looking forward to reading it (really), but man, I could not find a single thing about that book that I liked or admired.
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(Genghis) Cohen the Barbarian is a very funny Pratchett character. But I suppose it depends how you work it. Can't say, I've never read Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49.