Pathetic

If you're going to judge a book as being fit or unfit for an award, don't you think you should read the whole thing first?

Sasha Frere-Jones "only got through 300 pages" of "Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon before deciding it was a loser...

Now I understand how long Pynchon's books are, but, aside from some confusing chapters about mathematics (at least I think that's what they were about...) Against the Day was really quite accessible. And, in my mind, the best part of the book was the last 400-500 pages.

It's lazy people like this (and critics like James Wood) that cost Pynchon all of these literary awards. I'm sure it keeps him up at night.