I Hope First Impressions Aren't Lasting Ones

Blog #10

Ross Reed

Interpretation of lit

4/10/11

My first impression of The Crying Of Lot 49 is that this book seems very confusing, I am having a hard time figuring out what parts are supposed to be funny and what parts are supposed to be serious. 

I think the names of the characters describe their personalities very well. Oedipa Mass, our main character learns that her wealthy ex-boyfriend, Pierce Inverarity left her in his will and there is a messy situation regarding how to handle it because she has no knowledge on how to do it. She starts loosing her mental sanity and tries to get treatment from her doctor, Dr. Hilarius. He calls her in the middle of the night one night and talks about LSD. Then the next day she goes to see her lawyer about the will and he proposes to her. 

Based off of what I have read so far in this book I feel confident that there will be a lot of characters and relationships to keep track of in this book. Also I’ve noticed a theme for classical music and there must be some importance to that. 

Over and all, this book so far has not grabbed my attention at all and I actually found myself zoning out while reading it. I’m still optimistic that this book must get interesting somewhere because we are reading it in an interpretation of lit class, and we wouldn't read this book if there was no story to interpret.