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Title: The Bear Just Ate Me!
Review: I wrote a paper on this book. In his comments, my TA wrote: "sometimes you eat the bear, well, sometimes the bear eats you..." Ha, Ha. It's simply unbelievable how big that bear is. In fact, it reminds me of those fractals in math: infinitely complex -- whenever you think you've "got it," take one step back, and "it" turns out to be just one almost negligible part of the infinite complexity of this strange tale of conspiracy, religion, history, love, criticism on literary critics, LSD, Nazi doctors, anarchy, American Dream... the list goes on and on. They are all connected, and very powerful. The style and content are fused with such wonder unlike anything I've ever dreamed of. One point may deserve special notice for historic purpose: Pychon is truly a visionary -- he saw The Information Age, with all of its power and frailty, more than 30 years ago, long before cellphone, internet, pc, and all of those modern technological wonders.
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