Also I’m just catching up with this thread. Congrats everyone who finished it. I love it but I remember feeling like a weight had been lifted when I first finished it (though not quite actually, because I still had a bloody dissertation chapter to write on the thing!)
Even having read it twice, it’s a book whose “appeal”, so to speak, comes in the little fragments I remember and the feeling of certain parts. The whole idea of the ghosts of war humming along confusedly through the aether over what’s going on has really stuck with me ever since, and so much of Pynchon’s I guess magical realism, too, has left a really lasting impression
