The paper of record speaks

[Ya Sam]

My prediction: the more time the reviewers will take to read AtD the more 
positive their reviews will be.


>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>To: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: The paper of record speaks
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:08:21 -0500
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>From this Sunday's NY Times a review by Liesl Schillinger:  (very  
>positive)
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>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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