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A review by samwreads
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
3.0
A giant of a book. I don't want to get sucked down any particular rabbit hole so I'm just going to leave a few thoughts rather than a thorough review.
The vernacular and language is incredibly impressive. I think Pynchon does a great job. I don't know how accurate it is, but it is very distinct, incredibly readable and even illuminating.
The puns are fairly regular and for the most part hilarious. I laughed out loud reading this book probably more than any other I've read in recent memory.
The book drags way too much for me in the America section. I know the book was more of an adventure than a traditional arc in those, but it made it hard to pick up the book at times when I didn't have much riding on the characters or the story. For the most part the side stories were great, but the parts with Mason and Dixon themselves left me bored.
I thought the ending section (the last ~100 pages or so) was fantastic. The characters of Mason & Dixon were rounded out really well and I felt that I was able to relate to them as I never really had previously. This last section is really more of a prolonged epilogue, but if there's one thing that's for sure about this book it's that Pynchon has no problem prolonging any part of the story, and here he does it excellently.
The vernacular and language is incredibly impressive. I think Pynchon does a great job. I don't know how accurate it is, but it is very distinct, incredibly readable and even illuminating.
The puns are fairly regular and for the most part hilarious. I laughed out loud reading this book probably more than any other I've read in recent memory.
The book drags way too much for me in the America section. I know the book was more of an adventure than a traditional arc in those, but it made it hard to pick up the book at times when I didn't have much riding on the characters or the story. For the most part the side stories were great, but the parts with Mason and Dixon themselves left me bored.
I thought the ending section (the last ~100 pages or so) was fantastic. The characters of Mason & Dixon were rounded out really well and I felt that I was able to relate to them as I never really had previously. This last section is really more of a prolonged epilogue, but if there's one thing that's for sure about this book it's that Pynchon has no problem prolonging any part of the story, and here he does it excellently.