Well, I Read It!!!!!!!!!!!!! But You Have To Keep Telling Yourself, "It's Thomas Pynchon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                        I had hoped this might be the literary event of the year, and it is an event, but not one I had hoped for.  To be sure, "Shadow Ticket" is a play on Doctorow and noir authors, giving the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin a noir setting I had never imagined it having.

                                        But mixed in with a simple tale of gangster Hicks McTaggart trying to track down a cheese heiress-yes!!!!!!!--named Daphne, are the other Pynchonian mixes--cultural and movie references, language variations, conspiracy theories, long sentences, and ramblings all over the pace.  Readers, as long as you stay with the story you will find it almost fun.  Don't get bogged down in Pynchon's world.

                                           The man is 88, so this could be his last book.  I applaud him for writing it.  And those readers never having read Pynchon out of fear may find this to be his most accessible book yet.

                                             It is short at 293 pages, but it is a dense 293 pages.

                                            Good of kind, but not what I had hoped for, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!