I am Radar

[Dave Monroe]

Maybe I'll finally start reading contemporary fiction(or fiction @
all) again, then.

This is the most recent non-Pynchon Pynchon book I can recall:

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/omega-minor/

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Mike <beider19 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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