A review by mcgreig
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

4.0

I really enjoyed this for a while. There are segments of unbelievably good prose, fantastically imaginative ideas, and a lot of humour. However, after a while it just began to drag: I suspect some of the maths jokes passed me by and so seemed to become unnecessarily long-winded, the sex scenes were funny at first but then, like the maths, became rather boring. I’d been hoping for a more satisfying ending—not to explain everything, but as it is the story just seems to lose steam. I was left feeling that it would have benefited from a substantial edit in length, to make the allusions and ideas more focused.