I needed to take a break from Proust and I happened to be in a book store the day this came out so I went for it. You never know what to expect from a Pynchon novel but almost three things are guaranteed: weird sex, contrary-to-fact occurrences and bad songs.
Against the Day has them all and it the best Pynchon book since the last Pynchon book. I’m worried this could be last book we get from Pynchon, but hopefully he has time for another before he too travels on. One interesting thing about this book for me is that large portions of it take place exactly where I traveled earlier this year in Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. When I was grabbing the cover photo from Amazon I couldn’t help but notice that the top book by customers who bought
Against the Day was
The Aeneid — Long book lovers unite!