Pynchon's latest a brilliant wrist-breaker

[bekah]

At 6:18 PM +0200 1/28/07, Ya Sam wrote:
>Another shortish review
>http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/January/28/style/stories/06style.htm


 From that review:
"You'll have to read it twice. That's the only way that large chunks 
of the first few hundred pages of "Against the Day" will seem 
anything but self-indulgent and over-done. But when you get to the 
end you will want to go back, to see what you missed and why you 
weren't on to it the first time through."


I've been thinking that very thing as I listen and read for the 
second or third time (depends on what and how you count).  I'll bet 
we see many raves for AtD come trickling in.   That said,  I felt 
much the same as the author of the review and on first reading was 
disappointed.  Since starting the second,  far more leisurely and 
studied reading,  (I won't say close but I will say careful)  I've 
become more and more engrossed,  fascinated,  hooked and  enchanted, 
even to the point of spellbound.   At the moment,  AtD is my 
top-rated Pynchon,  but I'm an excitable girl so that feeling might 
not be permanent. 

Bekah
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