Against the Day

[jeregenest]

I'm currently reading Pynchon's latest, Against the Day. It is a fun read though at points it feels like a roleplaying game or 4 I've been in. So far we have areonauts, cthuloid like creatures, time travel and intelligent dogs. And Tesla. And there is this whole anti-corporation thing going on (I think), so like I said roleplaying games.

Hopefully I'll be done it this week and can write more. It is massive (1085 pages!) but I'm enjoying it. However it really does feel like the most SF thing Pynchon has ever wrote, and that is saying a bunch.

Oh, and there's a wiki.

And I'm still looking for all the bizarre sex I was promised in the reviews. That must be after page 400 or something.

Comments

[vaklam.livejournal.com]

You had me at "time travel" + "Tesla". That one goes on the "to buy" list.

Man, I'm out of the literary loop, these days. I didn't even know this one existed.


And the bizarre sex is always after p. 400. It's one of those iron laws of literature.