
Mason & Dixon
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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Thomas Pynchon
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic - from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
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Fabulous
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Truly the great American novel
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whimsy fun
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How to do things with words...
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Typical Pynchon in his element
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I got about 1/3 the way through M&D when I realized the beauty of his writing
I decided to start all over and listen at the same time as I had one done with Ulysses
It opened M&D to the masterpiece that it is
Masterful narration by someone who must truly love the book
Breathtaking
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I got to chapter 16 then decided to give up on the audiobook and pick up the physical book instead, which I found much easier to follow.
Narrator loses me
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Illuminating performance of Pynchon's most human book
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Mr. Crossley's mastery of the text and the distinctive voices throughout is profound. The best thing about this audiobook.
The ever-obscure, ever-compelling Pynchon sends up Colonial America
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