/lit/ - Literature

Wtf I want to try drugs now

>>10703505
I think they are faggots but this is great

Thoughts on pynchons best bud? I'm gonna be sad if this is really good. Nigga killed himself on his bike. In university there favorite book was WARLOCK by Oakley Hall. Its one of the best westerns I've read.

Pic related, on part 1, chapter 4 atm.

It's hilarious, but it's definitely a poor man's Pynchon.

a book on par with most of pynchon's work and a great musician too

if he'd lived longer he would have written a canonical masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwRyodoPV4

This feels like cheating.

>>7343741
I'm more in line with your opinion of it than Pinecone's, although yes, he really could have evaluated into something eventually.

Although he has a style quite like Pynchon's he seems to miss whatever beat it is that Pynchon knows the tune of oh so well.

When I finished it I wasn't entirely sure what it was trying to get at all along. It was more just... a recollection of a time and a place, with zany humor and Greek references here and there. Although I did have a mighty chuckle every now and then.

Was there a character in it based on Pynchon? I can't remember, but I vaguely recall a buck-toothed character.

Also, the Pengiun classic edition (pictured) has an intro by Pynchon.

Anyone here read this? Just finished it, absolutely loved it. Kind of a book's worth of Profane chapters set in a beatnik Animal House.

>tfw you will never be as lyrical as Gnossos Papadoulis

>>6776069

>>6665997
Read East of Eden, I just finished it and it was fucking great

I'm gonna read pic related next for a nice quick read.

Not sure what to read after that:
Mason and Dixon
A confederacy of Dunces
Oblomov
Los Detectives Salvajes
or some random classic American lit

>>6511975
Again, you don't need to be Pinecone to know about at least a couple of Pinecone approved books.

There's

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (written by a friend of his from Cornell, Pinecone wrote the intro to the penguin edition)

and

The Lime Twig

>>6445447
There's also this if you've read everything he himself has done and want to read something he liked.

Describe your life with a book title

pic related