/lit/ - Literature

238 in the Penguin Version

I mean there's not much more to the shit eating scene than there is in that paragraph that gets posted everywhere.

>>12471011
280 in the vintage

>>12471011
Just started reading this book. What am I in for lads?

>>12471218
A crazy ride, if you're not a lazy reader. Common giving up points are: the giant adenoid, Slothrop talking about his ancestors which transitions into a scene about a seance, the Kenosha kid, the shit eating scene. Once you make it past that you've made it further than 90% of /lit/. Once you get to Part II the book stops being so fragmented. Good luck.

>>12471011
THERES ALREADY A THREAD UP FAGGGGGGGGOTTTTTTTTT

>>12471271
Thanks fren I appreciate your points. Honestly looking forward to it.

>>12471218
First 200 were good. Hit a wall at 400. Starts getting repetitive.

>>12471299
I've watched a couple of /lit/ youtubers review this book and say it can be confusing to follow but if you push through it and continue reading you'll just "get it". Hoping I'm not just another pseud.

>>12471309
Uh, I don’t know about that. Felt like I “got it” too much, if that makes sense.

>>12471344
If you're talking about the post-colonial stuff, that's only a fragment of the content

>>12471025
The Penguin version is apparently not well-edited. I would recommend an older version, the original paperback is not very expensive iirc.

what happen to slopthrop, bros?

>>12471389
He becomes the myths he created during his adventures in the Zone, each one leading a separate life in the mass consciousness of the people there.

>>12471218
I am 100 pages in and starting to feel like I have a better chance of understanding the book if it was written in Korean

>>12472882
yeah, it almost always reads like an incoherent mess written in one sitting by someone high on crack cocaine or lsd or both at once

>>12471389
Bышeл Дeцл нa кpыльцo пoчecaть cвoё яйцo, cyнyл pyкy нeт яйцa, пoшeл пиздить y oтцa.
Bышeл Дeцл нa кpыльцo пoчecaть cвoё яйцo, cyнyл в pyкy 3 яйцa, мнoгo cпиздил y oтцa!=)

>>12471389
He’s killed by Komical Kamikazes

>>12471218
Have you watched Evangelion? Basically that.

>>12471271
>Once you get to Part II the book stops being so fragmented
Yeah, and by the end it's completely linear and straighforward, and you finally get all the answers to the various mysteries

(You) reading Pynchon is the real shit eating scene.

>>12473815
Of course.

>>12473815
It actually is pretty straightforward once you think about it a bit and maybe use the wiki a little bit to look up some of the trickier references

>>12471011
pynchon and joyce are degenerate fag memes, kys OP

>>12473980
This but ironically

>>12473980
Yumsy-numsy 'n' poopsie-poo,
If I'm a degenerate, so are you

>>12471011
What a jarring change from Mason and Dixon Jesus Christ.

>>12473791
But NGE is trash though?

>>12474168
oh well

>>12474168
Based superfluous question mark poster.

>>12471371
its fixed in new prints

>>12471351
tru dat. The book has layers after layers of meaning, OP. This is a good article about another one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070106075049/http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_granalysis.html

>>12473827
kek'd

>>12471271
>made it further than 90% of /lit/
They aren't missing much. Part I is the best because of based Roger.

>>12471271
What the fuck, the Kenosha Kid was one of the best, most memorable chapters.

>>12475904
Part IV is obviously the best

SHUT UP AND READ

>>12475957
No, but it's good too because there's some Roger in it. Part III is good because there's a lot of Tchitcherine in it. Only part II is kind of shit to be honest but part I is still the best.