The Stars My Destination

Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:40:17 +0000

Out of control media empire expansion bulletin! Unbridled aggression designed by machines funneled through human flesh! Fight the Order! A classic of the struggle to Entropize freedom. A good re-read, also, now that there are about twenty years of cyberpunk lit behind us. Kind of reminiscent of Spinrads Agents of Chaos, if it had been written by Bester. Wait a minute.. it was! I think it was called The Stars My Destination. I have ten copies and they are multiplying like tribbles. For every one I give away, I receive two from somewhere else. Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me. – reviewed by a cent for entropy

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Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:29:17 +0000

No, not V for Vendetta, as most readers, or readers of palmpilot blackberry ebooks, under the age of 30 might identify it as. V as in Thomas Pynchon. This V is a mysterious entity, the target of a search by Pynchonesque characters. After a recent re-reading of V, I was awed at the artifice of Pynchons mastery. This was one of his earliest books, and the language and complexity is utterly twisted up. The Whole Sick Crew of contemporary readers must devolve to the earlier age of the 1960s to see through the onslaught of hyper-marketing bohemian language and baroque plottings. Aside from Vineland and the Crying of Lot 49, all of pynchons other novels have remained true to density, a density which seems so much less dense because of being trapped in it. Gotta go, blackberry is ringing. – reviewed by Be Profane

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The Stars My Destination

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