/lit/ - Literature

>>12765212
Might as well go in order of smallest page count, I read Blood Meridian and Bleeding Edge together, I have that hadcover Against the day sitting on my shelf waiting

>>12765212
It really enrages this autist that you would just throw a McCarthy book in with all that Pynchonographia. That’s not how you do it goddamnit

Haha sex and poopie. Poop dee doop rocketly sex on the metal maths and flying down wings on dropping poop. But also: sex. Crothlorp Shneevorp Self-Insert bored and smart as he fuck woman that was hot (then did the drug, the kind that makes you [social analogy]).
There once was a guy sad
Even though he was glad
Flying about, shooting a kraut
Gubment bad
- A poem by CIA Agent Pynchon

Black people.

>>12765220
It's just what I got today in the mail. Some Faulkner and Woolfe's, Infinite Jest and House of Leaves should be arriving soon. I'll post everything eventually.

Also, as a bonus, my first edition of Gravity's Rainbow has a 'Burt Shapiro' signature, pic related. Ben Shapiro's relative?

>>12765212
I wish I had that amount of money to waste and then brag about it in 4channeldotorg

>>12765234
Are you fucking stupid? Do you think Ari Shapiro is related to Ben Shapiro too?

>>12765247
>what is a joke

>>12765212
V. is a very good book. So is Mason & Dixon. Those are the ones I’ve read. Read V. first.

>>12765212
Listen to me OP. Anyone who tells you to start with Pynchon somewhere other than Gravity’s Rainbow is a coward. That book is a masterpiece and worth suffering through. Do it. No lube

>>12765241
They're all used. It really wasn't that expensive.

>>12765247
All Jews are inbred.

>>12765212
Read them in order of release

>>12765212
Meridian then V. Pynchon kinda demands a specific frame of mind so might as well get Meridian done first or last. V is first book and good intro to Pynchon.

>>12765220
They're both great authors bud

>>12767843
>the rich smell of semen fills the room like smoke
Sometimes I can feel why they veto'd his Pulitzer despite overall genius of the book

>>12765225
This summarizes the trash that is pincheone.

>>12765220
cringe brainlet

>>12767843
CRINGE and garbage.

>>12767843
You wouldn't know greatness if it came up and bit you in the face.

>>12765265
>Not lubing up before the bananas
The words don't even make sense with a dry asshole

>>12765265
You should probably read TCOL49 first imo

>>12767892
Why's that

>>12765212
I have ready four out of six of those, and V is by far my favorite.

>>12768224
OP here, already did.

I also read Inherent Vice (in Spanish, lol).

>>12768229
don't you just feel incredibly repulsed when a long scene about eating feces is turned even more disgusting by a finishing line that makes you imagine the smell of cum?

>>12765212
i started with v. as my intro to pinecone before moving on to the gravy rainbow. that's my recommendation.

i feel like it's better to slowly read a pynchon every couple of years rather than buying like 6 of them at once

>>12765212

>>12765212
chronological order

>>12768698
Stop posting this shitty pic. It way undersells Mason & Dixon (Pynchon's masterpiece) and unironically suggests Bleeding Edge over Vineland. Whoever shat that out is retarded.

>>12768698
why the flipped badger?

>>12768738
But Vineland is shit and way worse than Bleeding Edge

>>12768744
The Trystero is in this thread

>>12768639
No

>>12765212
Those are some good memes you fell for OP. Since you've already read The Crying of Lot 49, V. would be a fine follow-up. Early Pynch makes for good, cozy reading. If you really dig it, dive into GR afterwards (or immediately). Whatever enjoyment and/or suffering is beyond worth the effort.

I'm convinced I've seen every picture there is of Pynchon on the internet. Somebody please prove me wrong.

>>12770039
did you see those enquirer shots a few months back?

>>12770048
The most recent pictures I've seen are from a Norwegian magazine, taken in the Upper West Side. I also just found some high-res scans of his yearbook photos.

>>12770062
well there ya go

>>12770069
"Oyster Bay High School (1953) – Tom and a few of “The Boys”

>>12765212
Same here but I don't even live in america so it costed like, 300 USD.

"Bleeding Edge" looks the most worthwhile.

>>12770099
I wish young Tommy was my friend

>>12770099
>“The Boys”
Wonder if they are of note.

Also, chek'd - nice digi's

>>12765225
pynchoncucks CANNOT recover from this

>>12771485
Slothrop isn't smart..