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Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
Absolutely wonderful. Melancholic, but upbeat, serious sometimes but usually ridiculous. Archaic and historical, but often inaccurate or anachronistic, though always authentic. There are little and sweeping moments and conversations which do and will stick out in my memory like real events: conversations about coffee, Dixon's hat knocked off by a snowball, a talking dog, endless arguing over facts and figures, Philadelphia in the fall, the country in the staggering summer heat.
Mason & Dixon stick out to me like real people. I remember them fondly, as friends, like our narrator Rvd. Cherrycoke does, so well thought out are their dialogues, views on life, and little tics. I can think, "Well what would Mason say about so and so," or "Dixon would have a good laugh about this one."
It's a story about the ridiculous things, good and bad, which have happened on colonial shores, and about the boundaries that people and nations have made to divide one another -- but at its core it's about two friends discovering themselves and each other, and the beautiful bond that they share by the end, when each ends up dreaming about the other at the same time.
In short, this is my Favorite Bookâ˘. I feel as though I could pick up and read it again, immediately, and get even more out of it a second time. I won't, not yet, but damn - it's tempting.
Mason & Dixon stick out to me like real people. I remember them fondly, as friends, like our narrator Rvd. Cherrycoke does, so well thought out are their dialogues, views on life, and little tics. I can think, "Well what would Mason say about so and so," or "Dixon would have a good laugh about this one."
It's a story about the ridiculous things, good and bad, which have happened on colonial shores, and about the boundaries that people and nations have made to divide one another -- but at its core it's about two friends discovering themselves and each other, and the beautiful bond that they share by the end, when each ends up dreaming about the other at the same time.
In short, this is my Favorite Bookâ˘. I feel as though I could pick up and read it again, immediately, and get even more out of it a second time. I won't, not yet, but damn - it's tempting.