Beware the Time.com review

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Mon Nov 13 19:37:22 CST 2006


Odd, I really am not having that problem at all. All lines are singling up for me with this book, more than with any of TRP's other books. Must be a Pagan thing.
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From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> More than in any of Pynchon's previous books, just
> what it all means is a problem in Against the Day,
> where plots and ideas and fantastic developments pile
> up in exhausting profusion. You've been vouchsafed
> once again his vision of a bright, beleaguered world,
> this one with more than its share of resemblances to
> our realities post--Sept. 11. With another few decades
> of reading and decoding, you may even get the work's
> largest intentions to snap into focus. Or maybe not.
> For all its brilliant passages, this is the book that
> makes you wonder whether even Pynchon knows what lies
> behind all those veils he's always urging us to part.
> But wouldn't you know it? Even when he jumps the
> shark, he does it with an agility that can take your
> breath away.
> 
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1558326-2,00.html
> 
> --- Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > so... at least is it a positive review?
> 
> 
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