Books of the decade: Your best books of 2006

[JD]

Whups

Against the Day would definitely be it.  I ran around from bookstore to
bookstore finding people who said it was boxed up and they could get me a
copy two days in advance only to have a manager tell them they couldn't.  I
did not do this for Inherent Vice.

I met an interesting person at one shop who was looking for a specific
history book.  He heard my query after his and came to chat with me a bit.
He said he liked GR but wasn't sure about the rest.  A heavy-weight guy in
camo who had purple lenses in his sunglasses.

At the (tobacco) pipe shop I frequent, the well-read resident old guy told
me he read TP's stuff but said he kind of got it halfway through and was
done with it.  He had better things to say about Zinoviev and Solzhenitsyn.
The Yammering Heights is something P-fans should check out, though it is
obviously in a far different style.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> Books of the decade: Your best books of 2006
> Desai and Penny stole the awards, but O'Hagan's Be Near Me and
> Jacobson's Kalooki Nights were my choice for 2006. What were your
> favourites?
>
> [...]
>
> This was also the year when Thomas Pynchon returned to bookshops for
> the first time in nine years, with the whopping Against the Day. Its
> settings range across the world at the beginning of the century from
> London to Göttingen, Venice, Iceland, the Balkans and the deserts of
> Central Asia, and its 1,100-odd pages include an encyclopaedic range
> of topics from mayonnaise to mathematics. I am going to read it, but
> life hasn't yet seemed quite long enough.
>
> [...]
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/07/books-of-the-decade-2006
>
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