Beware the Time.com review

[Jim Gilbert]

The Time review, just linked at The Modern Word, contains what, in most
novel descriptions, you could call a pretty comprehensive plot analysis. In
the case of Pynchon, what it breaks down to is that Lacayo reveals (spoils)
the fates of a couple of the main characters. Now, when one sets out to read
a 1,000 page novel, it's with the understanding that major events will be
sloooowly spelled out--the stuff he spoils doesn't happen for several
hundred pages in. So, that wasn't nice. Admittedly we're not reading Pynchon
for the "plot," but we do all like surprises and I just thought some of you
might like a warning.

--J. Gilbert
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