Jan 25, 2023Bleeding EdgeQuick (for Pynchon) fun (for Pynchon) jaunt through conspiratorial world of fresh-from-the-dot-com-collapse Silicon Alley, NYC; a modern take on film noir but like in books and also with computer stuff. A good mess to untangle with some snazzy characters and hijinks, the coarse barrage of people places and things might make you miss the fact that there are some pretty neat dynamics at play, insightful and honest! At his best, Pynchon falls into himself in a bit of an ouroboros of facts, figures, references, pedantry and pretension that goes for pages and pages and is...maybe...a bit tiresome actually - but this is perhaps not him at his best and instead just entertaining. I'll finish Gravity's Rainbow one of these days but in the meantime am happy to have found this one.
Mar 27, 2023The Very Best Of The BestFine I guess, decent writing and fun premise, but not much more than that, and doesn't really make me feel any which way - just "hmm yeah that seems a plausible story about darwin if he was an alien woman and I guess yeah evolution is kind of an interesting discovery."
May 19, 2023The 7 Deaths Of Evelyn HardcastleFun & funky pursuit of a killer and pursuit of the killt, whodunnit and also just whatdunandwen, little bit of Christie and a little bit of Groundhog day, and a little bit of (frankly, somewhat cumbersome) sci-fi oddity. That frame though allows for a novel premise and take on the classic dinner-party-and-a-murder that entertains and engrosses.