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A review by mamateresita
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
5.0
Finally, after a truly enthusiastic start, followed by months of putting down and picking up again, eventually to trudge through what I considered the slower bits, I finished this book with as much vigor as I began it. And what a feeling! I cannot describe it.
Truly a work of genius in ways I am unable to relate myself, Against the Day is a mammoth of a book, but so fascinating, for its characters, its sense of time and space, and its whorl of a plot. It struck me as distinctively SteamPunk, set in the age when reason began to win out over superstition, and with striking themes of potential, energy, and light hovering between the layers of what we now accept as reality.
There's absolutely no point in trying to relay what this novel is "about", but suffice it to say it's a masterpiece.
Truly a work of genius in ways I am unable to relate myself, Against the Day is a mammoth of a book, but so fascinating, for its characters, its sense of time and space, and its whorl of a plot. It struck me as distinctively SteamPunk, set in the age when reason began to win out over superstition, and with striking themes of potential, energy, and light hovering between the layers of what we now accept as reality.
There's absolutely no point in trying to relay what this novel is "about", but suffice it to say it's a masterpiece.