{"id":153,"date":"2006-11-20T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/20\/kakutani-slams-pynchon-and-the-return-of-the-dot-com-boom\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T04:02:47","slug":"kakutani-slams-pynchon-and-the-return-of-the-dot-com-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/20\/kakutani-slams-pynchon-and-the-return-of-the-dot-com-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakutani slams Pynchon and the return of the dot-com boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After her glowing review of Dave Eggers&#8217;s new book, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/20\/books\/20kaku.html\">Michiko Kakutani finds fault<\/a> in Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s inability to create one true character in his new novel, Against the Day. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whereas Mr. Pynchon\u2019s last novel, the stunning \u201cMason &#038; Dixon,\u201d demonstrated a new psychological depth, depicting its two heroes as full-fledged human beings, not merely as pawns in the author\u2019s philosophical chess game, the people in \u201cAgainst the Day\u201d are little more than stick figure cartoons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Times Sunday Book Review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/26\/books\/review\/Schillinger.t.html\">Liesl Schillinger&#8217;s sprawling review<\/a> calls <em>Against the Day<\/em> Pynchon&#8217;s &#8220;funniest, and argurably most accessible novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/21\/technology\/21envy.html\">Elsewhere in the Times<\/a>, Katie Hafner uses the example of Reid Hoffman to portray the return of the dot-com boom in Silicon Valley, where, she writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Envy may be a sin in some books, but it is a powerful driving force in Silicon Valley, where technical achievements are admired but financial payoffs are the ultimate form of recognition. And now that the YouTube purchase has amplified talk of a second dot-com boom, many high-tech entrepreneurs \u2014 successful and not so successful \u2014 are examining their lives as measured against upstarts who have made it bigger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After her glowing review of Dave Eggers&#8217;s new book, Michiko Kakutani finds fault in Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s inability to create one true character in his new novel, Against the Day. She writes: Whereas Mr. Pynchon\u2019s last novel, the stunning \u201cMason &#038; Dixon,\u201d demonstrated a new psychological depth, depicting its two heroes as full-fledged human beings, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}