![]() She starts looking into some small financial thing with a hot-shit web property, which is really a string that leads her into a gigantic tangled ball of lies and deceptions and insider trading and money laundering and dot.com craziness and maybe down into Hell itself, sort of. ![]() It's like historical fiction but set in 2001, starring sexy Maxine, mother of two and bad-ass quasi-legit fraud investigator. (J/k, not an anachronism! I have been summarily corrected!)Īnyway! What is actually in this book, you ask? Well, for once the back-cover blurb is pretty well done, if you want to go ahead and read that. Also unexpected: so much pop-culture minutia, from '80s fashion accessories to obscure Norwegian death-metal bands to a t-shirt reading "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US," which, now that I think of it, is actually an anachronism since this book takes place in 2001. Rilly it's all broken phrasing and grammatically incomprehensible sleights of hand-a copyeditor's nightmare, I can only imagine. The characters are cartoony, the hijinks are bananas, the twists and dips and feints are piled so helter-skelter that it's generally impossible to have any real idea what's going on, let alone where it's all headed.Īlso they're so slangy, which is always such a shock from erudite genius Pynchon he uses "spoze" for "suppose," "rilly" for "really," "sez" for "says," that sort of super-casual conversational thing. But while his historical epics flout all traditional novelistic conventions by blowing them completely on their ass, the modernist novels do it in a different way, one mostly of caricaturization. I suppose these books are equally immersive, equally replete with paranoia and feverish rambling and myriad in-and-out characters and unexpected song breaks and punning turned into high art (this one has a titty bar called Joie de Beavre, to give just one shining example). Then on the other side you have the wacky capers of Vineland, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge. I once said that reading Against the Day was less like reading a book than reading a chunk of a river, and I stand by that. Then on the other side yo The first thing to know about Pynchon books is that they fall into two pretty distinct categories, with Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day on one side-the side of sprawling epic, of insane depth of characterization and range of setting-these are books that you don't really read, you just dive on into, in all their jagged crazy bottomless mystery. The first thing to know about Pynchon books is that they fall into two pretty distinct categories, with Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day on one side-the side of sprawling epic, of insane depth of characterization and range of setting-these are books that you don't really read, you just dive on into, in all their jagged crazy bottomless mystery. No tarda en verse metida en líos con un camello en una lancha motora art déco, un perfumista profesional obsesionado con la loción para el afeitado de Hitler, un matón neoliberal con problemas de calzado, «elementos» de la mafia rusa y varios blogueros, hackers, programadores y emprendedores, algunos de los cuales empiezan a aparecer muertos en extrañas circunstancias.more ![]() ![]() Maxine investiga las finanzas de una empresa de seguridad informática y a su consejero delegado, pero las cosas se complican. En ese Nueva York, la joven Maxine Tarnow tiene una pequeña agencia de investigación de delitos económicos y se dedica a perseguir a estafadores de poca monta. Es posible que ya no corra tanto dinero como en el momento álgido de la burbuja tecnológica, pero lo que no escasean son timadores que pretenden arramblar con algún trozo de los restos del pastel. Silicon Alley es una ciudad fantasma, la web 1.0 está en plena edad del pavo, Google todavía no ha salido a Bolsa y a Microsoft aún se la considera el Imperio del Mal. Es posible que ya no corra tanto di Estamos en Nueva York, en 2001, durante el periodo de calma que transcurrió entre el desmoronamiento del boom de las puntocom y los terribles sucesos del 11 de Septiembre. Estamos en Nueva York, en 2001, durante el periodo de calma que transcurrió entre el desmoronamiento del boom de las puntocom y los terribles sucesos del 11 de Septiembre. ![]()
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