Preparation for "the Day"...

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Guy Ian Scott Pursey
<g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:

> I've put it off long enough - so I'm thinking of beginning Against The Day
> this December and seeing if I can finish it in a month (highly unlikely but
> the Christmas vacation may give me a fighting chance).

For the record, AtD enters its "terrible twos" on Nov. 21st ...

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594201202,00.html

> Could any of you advise me of what I might do to ready myself for this
> daunting task? I was thinking something along the lines of this primer for
> Gravity's Rainbow… http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_grintro.html

I found the SF oriented reviews esp. suggestive ...

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/column/sfw14197.html

http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2007/02/against_the_day.shtml

http://web.archive.org/web/20080112225836/http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?p=80437

Okay, flogging memory even as we speak ...