I am Radar

[Mike]

This little blurb does not do justice to the book. It is huge (600 some 
odd pages), it is bizarre, it is encyclopedic, it has footnotes and a 
bibliography (which might or might not reference real books, not to 
exclude a middle or anything, and nothing like DFW's IJ), it is 
ambiguous but holds together really well. I think it would appeal to 
fans of TRP. Well, it appealed to me anyway. I really like it, but 
wonder if it will hold up to a second or third reading.
One of the funniest scenes is a discussion of Lot 49 on the street 
outside the Strand Bookstore in NY that leads to a bad sex scene. 
Straight outta TRP.
But, all in all, a virtuoso piece of work. The guy is good.
To quote a famous movie reviewer: "Joe Bob says check it out".

Regards,
Mike

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On 4/10/2015 2:04 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> http://thepenguinpress.com/book/i-am-radar-a-novel/
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> "... this one resembles something by Thomas Pynchon. Like Pynchon’s
> novels (which are alluded to a few times in the text), 'I Am Radar' is
> thick with scientific references, tech talk, arcane erudition and
> historical research. Set over the past 40 years, it yo-yos between New
> Jersey, Norway, Yugoslavia, Cambodia and the Congo."
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/i-am-radar-by-reif-larsen/2015/04/09/77a75312-d6f5-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l
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