Books that worked magic

[Dave Monroe]

Books that worked magic

While 2006 ended on a high note with yet another
Indian author winning the Man Booker Prize, what was
the rest of it like? What were the books, for whatever
special reason, that struck a chord? We asked a few
personalities to name their choices for the best of
2006.

[...]

Jeet Thayil

   "A NEW Thomas Pynchon book is an extra-literary
publishing event, and Against the Day is no exception.
At 1085 pages, this one is also a master class in
fiction, especially boy's adventure and spy novels,
and dime-store westerns and pulp. Somewhere in there
you will also find an epic family feud probably
borrowed from the Mahabharata. Also (since you can't
write about a Pynchon novel without resorting to a
list at some point, here it is): references to high
and low art, sometimes in the same paragraph, the
history of anarchism and travel in air balloons, the
inner workings of modern mathematics and science,
shamanism and drug-taking, and characters who `stop
what they're doing to sing what are for the most part
stupid songs'. This is a big, important book and I
don't want to finish reading it."

[...]

http://www.hindu.com/lr/2007/01/07/stories/2007010700140100.htm

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