/lit/ - Literature

In this book, a man goes down the toilet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ

So is this basically... Catch 22 poop jokes?

What will I get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?

What did you get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

Fuck you, it fits better here

What are y'all's thoughts on Against the Day? I finished Mason & Dixon like a week, and have been debating whether to get it or no.
Second, where do you think I could order a copy of Gravity's Rainbow, be it the orange-cover or the Vintage edition? In Amazon and B&N you can only get the Penguin Deluxe one, and, even if it has only one sentence chopped off, I want that sentence complete when I read it.

Also, /pinecone/ general. You know the drill.

Just finished pic related, and all I have to say is ... wat?
Other than this the only Pynchon I've read was Lot49 and M&D.
my overall experience was as follows:
I did enjoy it, but I already know I'm going to have to reread this one.
First section started off nice and interesting with the introduction of a multitude of characters and the "protagonist" coming in along 50 pages in.
Second part was very on and off for me. Some points I'd be completely enraptured, and then Pynchon would go off on a tangent blathering for pages on end, only then to bring home the point in a rewarded fashion later on.
Third second was like watching an old silent movie comedy. The fastest paced by far, and Slothrop going from one scene to another in wacky antics.
Final section... my brain

I'm far too dumb for this book, so what was I supposed to take away from it all in the end?

Whereas most books criticize the organizing structure of society, it is my belief that Pynchon not only criticizes this and morality and mortality, but he also criticizes other naturally occurring things: sexually satirizing nature, criticizing Gravity's negative influence on rocket 00001s trajectory.

Do you think this is tenable? Do you think this sort of interpretation holds any water when in other sections of the book, Pynchon quotes Rilke and basically interprets Nature as this beautiful abstraction we are moving out of.

Why does this get a reputation as a hard read exactly? Compared to authors that legitimately work you hard like Conrad or Schopenhauer, Gravity's Rainbow all seems very plain in the prose (not that this is necessarily a bad thing). Is it just that people pick this up having never read any modernist/post-modernist literature before? I guess it is on the longer side page-wise, but the text isn't very dense.

Your favorite book with a black protagonist?

>What the fuck is going o-

I'm not an avid reader, but I'm interested in starting too read heavier books. My father left me some Leon Uris, Martin Amis, Crime and Punishment, Gravity's Rainbow and some James Joyce (Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Odysseus).

At what end shall I start? I'm thinking Gravity's Rainbow, since I've read Inherent Vice. Any other suggestions?

Well boys I finished it.

It feels like the graduation from /lit/. Is there a life on this board after finishing this book? Doubt it. It was always about this book. Always.

But please, for the love of god, someone explain part 4.

>reading bananarchist propoganda

(carl speaking to homer about a private eye)
>yeah that guy is great; he figured out who was cobbling my shoes at night. turns out I'm just severely schizophrenic

London, England. An erection just like any other, a story as old as the oldest profession. But in the wake of that erection, an explosion that will rock the lives of the English citydwellers, as well as statisticians and Pavlovians worldwide. Follow Tyrone Slothrop Into the Zone...the Twilight Zone.

Just completed this.

Does the fact that the nature of the 000000/S-Gerat and the ending aren't exactly straightforward bother you?

Leaves me wishing for more, things might become clearer in a future reading, I guess.

Can we discuss the ending to this?

I finished a few days ago and the ending has stuck with me. It was extremely dark and unexpected, for me at least.

The whole 4th part in general was not what I was expecting at all.

just finished pic related
what now?

So... is this basically catch 22 with sex jokes?

What kind of PERSON likes this book

is it worth it /lit/?