Shishi Posted:

I have read other books that seemed disjointed, but usually they were trying to come across with some great truth, or message or something that just didn’t work. I didn’t see one here. Anyone else find one?

This is true – and this is not true. Pynchon was already beyond the usual structure of a having a solution at the end of a book. Breaking those structures can mean, you won’t get a satisfying end at all. Just like life, some things end abruptly. I find this interesting.

Fortunato Posted:

I would clbumify this as postmodern academic fiction.

Other examples of style incorporated from other genres or sources would include the funny names (slapstick humor imo) and the elaborate conspiracy and her subsequent follow-up on it (detective fiction).

I’d like to add influences of surreal drama and road movies (in literal form).