salieri2 's review for:

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

2.0

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Halfway through it now: I definitely don't it as one of Pynchon's most accessible works, as some reviews have claimed. There's a whole host of characters, as usual, but they seem to be inhabiting different books and literary genres, even when they combine, and none of them have so far been attractive enough for me to bother trying to remember them when the narrative moves away. By the time we return to them, I have to sometimes actually go back to refresh my memory, which bugs.

I'm reading it with my laptop handy so I can look up all the mathematics and physics terms. Not enough humanity in this book, I think.