Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Good Girl Gone Bad

The Crying Of Lot 49 is probably the weirdest and most random book I have ever read. I understand some of the satire, which makes it enjoyable sometimes but is very hard to read. Thomas Pynchon´s style is awkward and beyond description, like my mom would say special or different, the use of commas, instead of periods and the story itself is just random. I think this story is one where things just happen and I believe this is not the common cliché story a bit innovating I think.
Odepia so far is a woman that represents the stereotype of the wild persons in the 60´s. I say it because it reminds me allot of my grandmother, a revolutionary who left her kids and husband and went and discovered the world ending up in theater and modeling. Not that Odepia is wild but, she is probably a woman who has the looks judging on the five or six boyfriends she has: Mucho, Pierce, Metzger and Roseman. All of these men are satirical especially Metzger a lawyer who was an actor in his youth. How can careers like those possibly interfere, they are extremities arts and law, not that a job defines our personality because this Metzger guy is somebody outgoing and daring. “That cuts down the probability, he told her, smug. She squinted at him through her glass. Then give me the odds. Odds would give it away.” Is it me or does that look like flirting , he knows she is married she is on a dead boyfriend business and she still has the nerve to flirt with her lawyer mentioning that she ends up sleeping with him. As much as I hate to say it this women is messed up. She has some kind of problem no wonder she thinks she is being persecuted she is crazy, and messed up these are the people end up at an asylum. She is like one of those good girls gone bad, "she wondred when then if this were really happening in the same way as, say her first time in bed with Pierce, the dead man." (pg23) we know from the start that her first boyfriend is Pierce and after Pierce came Mucho, so i wonder if Odepia´s feeling is regret. Regret on missing out on things so my reasoning or her excuse of sleeping around allot is her not having the wild life most people have in college and i think she is taking advantege that some people consider her as attractive and living the moment. Perhaps odepia is not crazy but she is in lament and sorrow. But the girl is still messed up, persecution really? she should go see a shrink.
So far the book is not boring like others I have read I still want to read and find out how it ends… yet is not a book I would read for fun, but is acceptable for class. I still see no point whatsoever on the story and I guess the reason we are reading this is to see the different styles like Mr. Thomas Pynchon´s writing and his story of persecution. Although I must say this is way better than science… I have enough of it in class.

1 comment:

  1. Love the new design! He may be saying that life has no meaning. Sound familiar?

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