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From: JohnM11/20/2006 3:13:36 PM
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Michiko Kakutani's NYTimes review of Thomas Pynchon's new novel begins with about as devastating a first paragraph as I've ever read.
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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. It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being rewardingly complex.

If you wish to read the full review, it's here.

nytimes.com
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