Talk:Against the Day

message: I don't know how to do this correctly but I just wanted to suggest someone start a comprehensive character list for Against the Day.
:well, you're welcome to-- there's over a hundred, though. NapoleonicStudent 14:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I started a "Principal Character" list because, from what I read, many of the characters only appear briefly. Any character that appears repeatedly or after, say, 80 pages for even just a second time, would be useful to put on the list, but the many characters that come and then briefly go would be a waste to record and a distraction to a reader looking for something useful, I think.Noroton 22:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Character List

message: The copy on the book jacket mentions a "cameo" by Groucho Marx. Has anyone found that? Can you give me a page number? I've read through the book and musthave missed it. Presumably its in the material on the motion picture industry in southern California in the 1920s, near the end of the book. Or is it? I found Bela Lugosi? Also,the other "cameo" menioned in the jacket copy, Tesla, wasn't a cameo at all, but an integral although relatively minor character. Still: Where's Groucho? --Christofurio 22:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You might find something at the Against the Day wiki. Good luck. Noroton 22:40, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: p. 467–8. - Jmabel | Talk 01:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Groucho Marx' Cameo 

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message: "the title of the previously anonymous novel": the word "anonymous", while technically correct, seems inapt. An "anonymous novel" usually means one with anonoymous authorship. - Jmabel | Talk 17:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Anonymous"

message: Doesn't the ratio of interpretation of the novel to the actual novel seem to favor interpretation?
Shouldn't the plot summary come before what people may think the title means?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shamharush (talk • contribs) 20:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 14 years later and I wholeheartedly agree  Jjollyy (talk) 01:30, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Too Much of Reviewers Ideas, Too Little Pynchon?

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