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Bleeding Edge

Written by: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: Jeannie Berlin
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A New York Times Notable Book

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th.

Maxine Tarnow runs a fine little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side. All is ticking over nice and normal, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, and an array of bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.

Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?

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Plunge into the dreamy vignettes, the overly-coincidental run-ins, the hazy conspiracy allusions and hilarious turns of phrase - all crafted in a way that only Pynchon knows how. This is Pynchon at his most grounded, even if it's barely with his tippy toe. Jeannie Berlin is perfect - and truly renders New York one of the main characters of the novel.

Most enjoyable Pynchon

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pynchon knows just how capable our western systems are willing to go to exert control and make some money while doing so. and 911 was their biggest great and secret show.
jeanie Berlin is such a good narrator for this book. shes got a breathy raspy brooklynese sorta delivery that embodies all that shaky paranoia and quaint nostalgia for apocalypse that was ripe in the days around the event. shes the best.

nail in the coffin

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Jeannie Berlin's narration is impossible. Skip this one and get a different Pynchon novel. Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon are both great.

Nails on a chalkboard would give better narration

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