/lit/ - Literature

>>11398030
(i wrote that)

He said it was a mistake or something to that effect.

Also maybe I take that back- spent the last hour continueing on with TR and enjoyed it.

The big turn off is that you can really tell it's the product of a young man with a grandiose opinion of himself- all the characters are mockeries, the references are often arbitrary, half-jokes (and this didnt actually annoy me but it did stand out)

He basically just doesn't have any of the flare Joyce has by the time he gets to U or Pynchon has by the time he gets to GR- it's an impressive first work but I didn't like it for many of the same reasons I didn't enjoy parts of V. & considering Pynchon was reading TR when he wrote V. you can see were it rubbed off - the mockery of NY intelligentsia / young boheme scene prominent in both - tho V. pulls it off way better w/ at least characters you like

I am only 270 pages in tho to TR so maybe I shouldn't blab- I'm almost expecting Gaddis to develop more of an affection for these characters

Also I went into TR having read JR - a great book - and it's a very different style