The first review of the new Pynchon novel has already been published (3 weeks prior to the release date). It's by Publisher's Weekly, you have to be s subscriber to get it, but Amazon got access and posted it to their blog.

It seems like this new Pynchon novel is going to be right up my alley and I've already recruited one intrepid soul to read it with me. If anyone is interested in tacking an 1,120 pg monster over the holidays with Ken (user: redelk2535) and I, let me know. I plan on doing my own review for "The Puget News" when my pre-ordered copy gets here from Amazon.com.

Quoted: Knotty, paunchy, nutty, raunchy, Pynchon's first novel since Mason & Dixon (1997) reads like half a dozen books duking it out for his, and the reader's, attention. Most of them shine with a surreal incandescence, but even Pynchon fans may find their fealty tested now and again. Yet just when his recurring themes threaten to become tics, this perennial Nobel bridesmaid engineers another never-before-seen phrase, or effect, and all but the most churlish resistance collapses.