/lit/ - Literature

>>17725687
>>17725726
Give the industry time to develop anons.

Western publishing has completely gone to shit and it's only a matter of time before a formula for online publishing success becomes apparent.

>>17365088
the gravity's rainow

>>17298155
I've.

>>17072904
that's a trans banana.

>>17032234
In the real world it's worth a genius grant or two.

>>17023210
hello yes? this is bananaphone?

>>17018301
u got nothing

>>17013149

>>16990016
Gravity's Rainbow

>>16985632
Gravity's Rainbow

>>16981797
Lots and lots of sex.

>>16894320
GR and M&D are his two best. The best of those two is certainly M&D. It has much more verve and human emotion it, diving deep into comraderie, passion, and loss. These human elements only occasionally bubble to the surface in GR—in its best episodes, no coincidence—while usually being lost in the sea of technical references, overbearing themes, and intentional complexity and obscurance. No doubt Pynch got a lot more mature between writing the two books. GR is from a kid saying "Look, I'm smart," M&D is from a man wizened and humbled by the years, and probably thinking of death more and more.

>>16888619
I do recall a scene where Slothrop goes down the poopchute while loaded on drugs.

>>16587869
That happened with me as well, but I didn't get past maybe 30 pages or so. I remember the giant adenoid as being about when I stopped. I just had no clue what was happening so I got bored.

Recently actually read it, at 29.

>>16489511
do your farts smell like bananas

>>16468482
Glad I read it, pretty fun fusion of themes, the ending is incredible. But I'll probably never re-read it. The nonstop sex stuff, while thematically important to the story, isn't something I want to experience again, nor do I expect I'll ever wanna return to the nuclear-age anxiety that he evokes throughout the book. Ultimately, I preferred Mason and Dixon, a much more wholesome work.

>>16386237
It's better than Gravity's Rainbow. And neither one Pynched me. DOn't even suggest for one moment i've been pynched. I am warning you.

>>16350362
>Being this scared
As you should be. Also it's not ad hominem when it's in their own words and actions.

>>16127201
Patrician. Pic not related.

I am Thomas Pynchon.

>>15658551
Take a break or change your writing habits, spend less time and be happy with what ever you produce.
You'll just burn yourself out otherwise.

>>15656053
Chink shit, boutta start writing my own. when I'm a famous author I'll track Martin down and slap his fat wine tits.

>>15656242
b r a h

>>14466974
They're amateur Chinese genres based on Dao/ gook medical practices and romance of the three kingdoms/ kung fu monkey king.

Essentially the CCP banned supernatural themes in any literature set after the creation of the CCP so a generation of nerds who live in the dysopian nightmare that is china created rape-fu novels about young masters becoming immortals.

Check out warlock of the magus world if you want something western themed and reverend insanity if you want something more eastern.

Or don't.

Anyone else reading birth of the demonic sword?

>>14383913
>>14383918
>tfw no broad shouldered texan cultivator unleashing nine steer phantoms with each strike

>>14383578
Huge fan, my favorite part of fantasy novels growing up was the power fights and descriptions of the mc meeting the authors waifu.