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product_id: 156298792
title: "Against the Day"
brand: "thomas pynchon"
price: "Rp862874"
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# Against the Day

**Brand:** thomas pynchon
**Price:** Rp862874
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- **What is this?** Against the Day by thomas pynchon
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Against the Day

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant introduction to Pynchon
*by T***N on 15 June 2014*

Had never read Pynchon before hearing a chance reference to the brilliance of his prose and boy did this live up to it. Some reviews compare it unfavourably with his older stuff, which I haven't read. But this vast sprawling wildly surreal epic washed over me like a tidal wave. It's not remotely like Ulysses - but in a similar way the enjoyment of swimming through its language is as much about the travelling as the destination. The tone is resonantly anti capitalist, and ranges from gripping suspense through erudite humour to the lyrically evocative and the deviantly erotic. And yet the going isn't as heavy as that all sounds. Though Pynchon is spitting feathers wherever he depicts the brutal exploitation of the have-nots by the haves, much of the time he is giving free rein to a life-affirming & exuberant sense of fun.NB: I bought and enjoyed this on audiobook first and listened to it over six weeks or so - the prose is so dense and resonant that it bears repeated listening. Would warmly recommend it as a way into this novel - Dick Hill's narration is masterful. On the second time through it was clear that I was still missing so much that I bought the printed book as well.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Magnificent Pynchon epic which is surprisingly accessible
*by M***D on 25 July 2020*

I freely admit I struggled a little with Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon. There were times reading those books when I couldn't really figure out what was going on. So before reading Against the Day, the Pynchon book I'd enjoyed the most was The Crying of Lot 49. In my opinion, ATD is just as accessible as TCOL49. It's just so much longer, which equals so much more fun.It's so filled with great ideas it's mindblowing. At times you read 10 pages and you feel like there was enough material there for an entire novel. And then it's onto the next 10 pages.Recently I was reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (clearly influenced by Pynchon). I started off a little overwhelmed by how much reading I had in front of me. Then about 60% of the way through it dawned on me just how damned good the book was and I regretted not really truly savouring the book from the beginning. A similar thing happened to me with Against the Day, but this time with reference to all the Pynchon books I'd previously read. This was the moment that's going to send me back to read all of them again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome novel by an awesome writer
*by M***Y on 5 July 2015*

Awesome novel by an awesome writer. A proper mind-bender that takes stamina to keep up with but is definitely worth it.

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