Bleeding Edge
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
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47% recommend41% neutral12% critical
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What Hacker News says
- Bleeding Edge is another fun, (relatively) short read if you want to go back for more Pynchon.
- Entirely subjectively:
Bleeding Edge is a big book, but very easy to read for Pynchon. Crying is tiny, but dense. Vineland isn't huge but I found it hard going (but entertaining and worthwhile). Inherent Vice is a similar size to Vineland but an easier read.
- I think the entry Pynchon for people on here is Bleeding Edge. Set during the dot com boom with plenty of references to late 90s tech.
- If you want to like Pynchon but are daunted or put off by Gravity's Rainbow, start with Bleeding Edge (2013)
- Funny enough there was a moment when reading Bleeding Edge that I noticed that the writing had gotten much better and everything was really Pynchon at his best and within a few pages the characters start talking about Hitler's cologne. The V2 even came up.
It was like a little deleted scene from Gravity's Rainbow was snuck in there and I enjoyed that a lot.
- It's prose, but have you read Thomas Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge"?
