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Last login: 11 hours agoUpAndAtom: MJ is a 28 year old guy from Columbus, Ohio, USA.; Likes 442 pages, 2 videos, 47 photos • 54 fans • Received 11 reviews; Member since Feb 15, 2007

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FFFFOUND!: Apr 16, 5:20pm 0 review books
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Bookcase Bedroom - The biggest collection of pictures and photos on the internet…: Feb 26, 5:01pm 157 reviews books
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The Art of Fiction: A Reading List: Nov 8, 2007 11:51am 29 reviews books
http://www.greatbooksguide.com/ArtofFiction.html

Kurt Vonnegut -- troubling.info: Nov 4, 2007 10:00am 174 reviews books
http://www.troubling.info/vonnegut.html

What Should I Read Next?: Nov 1, 2007 6:40pm 86 reviews books
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/books/search

A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the n…: Oct 24, 2007 12:21pm 1 review movies, books
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1673269,00.html; Conversation between Cormac McCarthy and Joel & Ethan Coen.

Lies that are true: The Glacier With Her Name Carved In It: Aug 13, 2007 9:47pm 16 reviews books
http://fiction.theshapeofdays.com/2007/06/29/the-glacier-with-her-name-carved...

goodreads | see what your friends are reading: Jul 26, 2007 2:39pm 48 reviews books
http://www.goodreads.com/

Top Ten - Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century - Top 10 - Top 10 List - Grape…: Jul 14, 2007 12:09pm 148 reviews books
http://alternativereel.com/cult-fiction/Banned_Books.html

VQR & Back to the Future: On Thomas Pynchons Against the Day: Jul 11, 2007 8:02pm 2 reviews books
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/summer/logan-pynchon-against-the-day/; From the page: "Thomas Pynchon's sprawling, untidy new novel, Against the Day, is only as frustrating as most of his fiction. It starts in the air, high-minded as a kite, and gradually flutters groundward, dragged down by subplots galore and characters thrown in willy-nilly, as if a novel's only virtue were how many characters it could stuff into a phone booth (no doubt Pynchon, who has loaded the book with more Victorian mathematics than Carter had pills, has an algorithm up his sleeve)."
I couldn't disagree more with this. This is quite possibly Pynchon's easiest read to date. Granted, the number of characters in the book transcends into the hundreds, but the majority of which are given only brief mention, usually lasting no more than a few pages, and have little, if anything to do with the plot. It's an enjoyable book, all the more so if you make fewer attempts to sort out the plot and just go along for the ride.