The paper of record speaks

[Paul Mackin]

 From this Sunday's NY Times a review by Liesl Schillinger:  (very  
positive)

IN “Against the Day,” his sixth, his funniest and arguably his most  
accessible novel, Thomas Pynchon doles out plenty of vertigo, just as  
he has for more than 40 years. But this time his fevered reveries and  
brilliant streams of words, his fantastical plots and encrypted  
references, are bound together by a clear message that others can  
unscramble without mental meltdown. Its import emerges only  
gradually, camouflaged by the sprawling absurdist jumble of themes  
that can only be described as Pynchonesque, over the only time frame  
Pynchon recognizes as real: the hours (that stretch into days) it  
takes to relay one of his sweeping narratives, hours that do “not so  
much elapse as grow less relevant.”




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