I’m hesitatant to read all these Pynchon reviews that are hitting the streets, because I’ve just barely begun reading Against the Day, but I couldn’t resist taking a look at what Michiko Kakutani had to say in the NY Times. Here’s the lead:
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, “Against the Day,” reads like the sort of imitation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that a dogged but ungainly fan of this author’s might have written on quaaludes.
Quaaludes? I’m a dogged (if ungainly) fan, but no matter how hard I’ve tried, I haven’t been able to find a Quaalude since 1984, when it became illegal to manufacture them in the US.
