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Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

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Against the Day, Pt. 5: "Rue du Départ" (p. 1063-1085)
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Against the Day, Pt. 2: "Iceland Spar" (p. 119-428)
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Dec 15, 2015 Michael rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, world-war-1, austria, bosnia, satire, france, germany, mexico, bulgaria, mathematics

This is a very difficult book to assail and digest but worth it for me to see how the pomo master keeps up with the scene of post-postmodern he has spawned. The wonderful new weird I can’t get enough of (such as the three M’s of Mitchell, Murakami, Mieville), and others I keep trying (like DeLillo and Lethem). I bring these others up to convey that if you like them, this may be worth the ascent.. There is something in it for most readers (mystery, espionage, fantasy, historical fiction, family s ...more

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Feb 01, 2017 Kyle rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: postmodern, masterpiece-tour-de-force, dat-prose-tho, pynchon, favorites, subjective-goats

As unfortunate as it is, Against the Day may be the last tome we see from Pynchon. It also just might be his best. It seemed to me, while reading it, that this was Pynchon trying to cover all of the themes, questions, and philosophical ideas he explored over the course of his career and wrap them up in one final doorstopper. I feel, personally, that he succeeded.

I was blown away by how refined the language seemed in this book. It was just as beautifully written and just as complex as Gravity's R ...more

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