false 413 15 A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, <i>Mason & Dixon</i> is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. 1935 1997 Mason & Dixon total:1229|5:461|4:406|3:224|2:90|1:48| 1229 4829 2437 165 5 8 false false Thu Nov 06 08:51:47 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 08:48:51 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 08:51:47 -0800 2008 Savage Beauty and tired of the endless formality of complete names in Love in the Time of Cholera, I fished Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon out of the box it came in weeks ago. Sat down, stirring sugar into the tea I intended to drink while I read, and dro...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Fri Mar 16 16:02:43 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 16 16:22:38 -0700 2007 Gravity's Rainbow is Pynchon's finest work, I enjoyed M&D the most. The contemporary author shows that he's still got it, more than 20 years after winn...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Apr 11 16:04:28 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 13 12:56:41 -0700 2007 Mason & Dixon is Pynchon's most moving novel, a panoramic view of the Enlightenment-gone-human. The author's cozy narration, performed in sometimes anachronistic 18th-century vernacular, lends a playful flavor to this buddies-tale and enhances the mixed-brow humor...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:59:56 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 18 13:06:55 -0700 2009
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The fact that I finished Mason & Dixon exactly a year to the day from Vineland freaks me the fuck out. I admit I’m not exactly a fan of Thomas Pynchon – not by any stretch of the imagination. Having read five of his six current novels (Against the Day being the rema...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 17 12:11:29 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 12:25:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 23 04:22:29 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 04:25:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 15:35:28 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 11:18:41 -0800 2009 Aulde English epic, I encountered a talking dog in mid-eighteenth century England as Jeremiah Dixon was becoming acquainted with Charles Mason. From thence the jocular surveying-pair - guided by the gifted, ri...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 10:44:34 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 10:55:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 05:39:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 05:19:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Feb 21 12:34:51 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 12:44:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Fri May 09 07:19:28 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 14:37:47 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 05:23:16 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 14:46:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 23 14:50:02 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 14:59:48 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 13:50:53 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 19:31:42 -0700 2009
So here we go. Mason and Dixon is less intensely angry than Gravity's Rainbow and it goes by fast like a series of fantastic if not phantasmagorical episodes told by the Rev. Cher...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 28 00:37:45 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 13:34:41 -0800 2009 1 1 false false Mon Dec 22 19:34:53 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 19:34:53 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Fri Sep 19 18:51:52 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 18:52:36 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 13:44:42 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 11:24:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:19:53 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 06:51:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=869806