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174 reviews for:
Thomas pynchon's Against the day: A Deleuzian reading of pynchon's language.
Thomas Pynchon
4.19 AVERAGE
174 reviews for:
Thomas pynchon's Against the day: A Deleuzian reading of pynchon's language.
Thomas Pynchon
4.19 AVERAGE
so good really want to give it five stars but it’s just unnecessarily long, found that pynchon was repeating points at times
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Fuck. Why has finishing this made me so sad?
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
It does feel a bit stupid to write reviews of books that came out a decade ago, but I guess I don’t care too much about that or I wouldn’t do it.
I had to go look at some other reviews to figure out what to say about Pynchon and this book. I can’t seem to ever get into his work, and I’m not the only one. Thankfully others did the hard thinking about why that is: “Pynchon…never delves for more than a fleeting moment into any given character's mind.” No wonder they all blend together and I can’t keep track of what’s going on. Also apparently he’s known for characters that are genre clichés.
Here’s another thing: I grabbed this from the library for my Kindle, thus had no idea it was over 1,000 pages long. Not much in this life needs that many pages, ever, imho.
And finally: “Just as Pynchon is uninterested in conventional characterization, he is also uninterested in plot. It feels odd to call ATD a plotless novel, since it is a novel in which a great deal happens. These events, however, are not connected by anything resembling cause and effect.” Okay now we’re getting somewhere. I like cause and effect—it doesn’t have to be in the realm of the real, but it does have to have some inner logic.
I feel like I finally have permission to take Pynchon off my “I should read that” list forever, and not feel like a philistine for it.
Credit: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/446317838?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
I had to go look at some other reviews to figure out what to say about Pynchon and this book. I can’t seem to ever get into his work, and I’m not the only one. Thankfully others did the hard thinking about why that is: “Pynchon…never delves for more than a fleeting moment into any given character's mind.” No wonder they all blend together and I can’t keep track of what’s going on. Also apparently he’s known for characters that are genre clichés.
Here’s another thing: I grabbed this from the library for my Kindle, thus had no idea it was over 1,000 pages long. Not much in this life needs that many pages, ever, imho.
And finally: “Just as Pynchon is uninterested in conventional characterization, he is also uninterested in plot. It feels odd to call ATD a plotless novel, since it is a novel in which a great deal happens. These events, however, are not connected by anything resembling cause and effect.” Okay now we’re getting somewhere. I like cause and effect—it doesn’t have to be in the realm of the real, but it does have to have some inner logic.
I feel like I finally have permission to take Pynchon off my “I should read that” list forever, and not feel like a philistine for it.
Credit: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/446317838?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
adventurous
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
The book is at its best when it's dealing with the Anarchists and Scarsdale Vibe.
adventurous
challenging
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Jag gjorde det. Det här är en väldigt lång bok. Den handlar om ljus, dualism, slutet på allt och början på något nytt. Naturligtvis är den framställd i form av dels en hämndberättelse som utspelar sig bland anarkister i vilda västern, dels i form av en global spionthriller omkring första världskriget, och dels i form av extremt surrealistisk science fiction/religiös-nånting på olika platser i världen (exempelvis i Shambhala, i jordens insida (där det finns aggressiva dvärgar), hos en neo-pytagoreansk sekt i centrala London, under Sahara (där kärleksaffärer mellan enorma sandmaskar och människor förekommer), i Tunguska, i Nikola Teslas laboratorium, och i Venedig). Den bland annat innehåller tre din-mamma skämt, en luftskeppskock som även råkar vara en profet, samt en rysk bisexuell tidsresande matematiker.