What a wierd begining to a book!!! If I am reading this correctly, and there is a good chance that is not the case, then a woman named Oedipa recieves a letter from a dead ex-boyfriend in the very begining of chapter 1. This is akward because why would a dead ex-boyfriend send her a letter, or a will if that is what it is, about a confussing real-estate issue that backfired and Pierce, her ex-boyfriend, lost $2 million. This makes the reader not only question what is going on, but what kind of relationship did Pierce and Oedipa have if he is in her will. Then later in the chapter a doctor calls at 3 am and wants Oedipa to get involved with some kind of drug trial or experimentation. This is also very strange, why would the doctor call her at 3 am, and what is the connection with drugs? Next, she goes and visits her lawyer and he wants her to run away with him. What is wrong with all of these people. I do not know if the author is trying to make a statement that all the proffesions that most people view as highly successful are actually really messed up as the Doctor calls at 3 am about drugs and the lawyer wants her to run away with her. Oedipa seems very strange to me and I cannot relate to her yet. She has a wierd thought process in my opinion, and is always day-dreaming and having these images and I just don't understand what her deal is. I also noticed that the radio station that Oedipa's husband works at is KCUF which is the F-word spelt backwards, I only know this because I used this spelling in 5th grade with my friends. I would assume this was on purpose.
The next chapter is also wierd as Oedipa goes to San Narisco with a car rental to see the law office where Pierce used to work. Then she meets up with a lawyer at the firm, Metzger who she ends up playing a striptesse game and having sex with later. What I do not understand is why would he bring a bottle of Tequila to meet with a married woman to go over her dead ex-boyfriends real-estate case. This is very strange! The whole sex scene I can see because you see that all the time in movies and books where the woman goes to a hotel room and ends up cheating on her boyfriend or husband or whatever in some act of passion. However, I still dont understand why a lawyer would bring a bottle of Tequila to go over her dead ex-boyfriends case, its very wierd. Also, what is the deal with Miles? He's a rocker in some kind of hippie band or something who just randomly meets her at the Hotel and goes to her room in the middle of Oedipa's striptesse game. What is with that?
Overall this seems to me to be a very wierd book so far.
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