s.penkevich's Reviews > The Crying of Lot 49

Wåké wrote: "Please post your review."

I really should reread this just to review it (read before I joined goodreads, but wow is it still a favorite).

haha need to re-read this one too but I think paranoia just abt sums it up

Au contraire, i hate the way it follows me…. everywhere!

Ray wrote: "Au contraire, i hate the way it follows me…. everywhere!"

What’s that line in Infinite Jest “I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?”

Nope!

Jamie wrote: "haha need to re-read this one too but I think paranoia just abt sums it up"

Yea been really considering a reread. I quite literally had a dream that I wrote this as a review last night so I did it haha

Richard wrote: "Nope!"

FAIR haha Pynchon is one I both want to reread but am also tepid on the idea…like I LOVED him when I was 22 but will the same things give me joy now?

s.penkevich wrote: "Richard wrote: "Nope!"

FAIR haha Pynchon is one I both want to reread but am also tepid on the idea…like I LOVED him when I was 22 but will the same things give me joy now?"

If my experience is any guide, it's a crap-shoot.

Richard wrote: "s.penkevich wrote: "Richard wrote: "Nope!"

FAIR haha Pynchon is one I both want to reread but am also tepid on the idea…like I LOVED him when I was 22 but will the same things give me joy now?"

I..."

Yeaaaaa I often think some books are left in the golden nostalgia of the past. Though I have had some real luck on my Steinbeck reread campaign this spring

s.penkevich wrote: "Yeaaaaa I often think some books are left in the golden nostalgia of the past. Though I have had some real luck on my Steinbeck reread campaign this spring."

There are successes, there are failures. I'm inclined to let the reads I loved stay memories these days.

But I'm closer to 70 than 50. You've got *decades* to give the past time to marinate!

Richard wrote: "s.penkevich wrote: "Yeaaaaa I often think some books are left in the golden nostalgia of the past. Though I have had some real luck on my Steinbeck reread campaign this spring."

There are successe..."

Haha fair. I do love buying books saying “I need to own it so I can reread it” knowing damn well I will not be doing so

Canon wrote: "“Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”"

Yesssss the Pynchon quote we should all have on motivational office posters haha. “I’m just gonna eat this edible and put myself in a social situation…wait why did I just do that this sucks” haha
I’ve always enjoyed DFW’s Paranoid King “yes I’m paranoid…but am I paranoid enough?”

Canon wrote: "Lol I’m just thinking of how Jeff Goldblum, who killed it in his Portlandia cameo as the Pull Out King, could definitely be a good Paranoid King."

YES hahaha. That is one of my favorite sketches in that whole show haha

Hahaha. Yes.