So I started reading this novel 351 days ago, and tonight at 8:11 pm, I finally finished it. I can stay that this reading experience has been one of the most involved and difficult reading experiences of my life, but that I am glad I made it through all 776 pages of this text. And while I can't say that I understand every single part of this book, well I did feel I have gained something even if my thoughts are still formulating. While reading this book as many of you know I have been in graduate school for my credential and Master's degree. I originally started this blog as a way to record my own struggle to develop comprehension, and I definitely feel having to write about this book, even in sparse distant spurts along the way has helped some. I will continue to write about this text in this blog as I look back and passages and work to make some meaning of this text. To all of those people out there still struggling to finish, well all I can say is that it is worth it, because the truly beautiful passages Pynchon is able to create throughout the novel are worth the confusion.
