Pynchon's Revenge

Tom Pynchon is back in form, the only problem being  his growing predictability-- since all polymaths know everything , they tend to think alike. Against The Day,  is, among many other things, a gloriously bemused send-up of the unwanted homage paid Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon by  Hollywood, His Dark Materials and The Baroque Cycle. It interlineates Pynchon's take on Boys Own fiction and the hard edged neorealism of Blood Meridian. Taking 1,085 pages to parodize a pair of  novels approaching 4,000 may seem a dubious literary bargain, but so far it's an absolute hoot.There's no  extra charge for insinuating  Godel's view of circular time into the story with  the eerie clarity.

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[John Burgess]

I'm pleased to see you found Pynchon's hidden madness in Against the Day!