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>>13123845
268

>>13123849
"At last we are the gravity's rainbow.." That part was pretty based

>>13123833
It's makes more sense if you read some of his other stuff first.

>>13123849
Dude I dropped around 500 hundred and only then was starting to fall into place for me, but it was my first Pynchon. The book is great but I'm just brainlet. I've read infinite jest and didn't have a hard time but this is crazy.

No, And That's A Good Thing

today I will remind them

>>13124385
hey buddy I think you accidentally switched Ulysses and Infinite Jest :)

>>13123849
oh sweet child.
>>13124308
oh sweeter child.
OP, man the fuck up.

>>13124350
Kek

No, it's shit aimed at college aged individuals who pretend to be intellectuals.

They aren't. Nor the book is actually good.

>>13124479
>(You)
Jesus, is it summer already?

>>13124484
Nope, but Pynchon is shit.

Read Calvino.

I started to read tCoL49
I gave up after chapter 2. It was the most tedious self indulgent novel I've ever wasted my time on. Do americans really consider this the height of literature?

>>13124484
‘tis.
>>13124479
why din’t you like it?

>>13124497
Thanks. Reading Calvino. Invisible Cities is cool.

>>13123845
304

>>13124467
t. Manchild

>>13124678
may be so, but at least there is some development in that rather than puling babe unable to stumble so bright and welcoming a cavern of GR

>>13123849
lol genius

>>13124512
I read some Pynchon (V. mostly) back when I was in hs, way over 10 years ago. I can't remember much apart from the fact that what I was reading was simply not interesting in the slightest.

>>13124576
Go with If on a winter night a traveler. It's one of my favorite books of all time.

>>13124502
It doesn't start getting real good until chapter three

>>13124512
Because he didn't actually read it.

>>13124999
You should definitely re-read V. It's worth more once you've seen a bit of life after high school.

Thanks for Calvino rec. I just downloaded the epub. It's so refreshing to read someone with some talent. I've been reading DFW and man! ....that guy has absolutely nothing to say.

>>13123833
It actually makes sense from the very beginning, and part of it making sense is that in the big picture it doesn’t make sense

>>13125565
>seen a bit of life after high school
how do I do this while living in mummy's house

>>13126512

>>13126546
Yep

>>13126589
then why Slothrop didn´t went to the rockets in the first place?

>>13126589
>yes
>no
>yes
the absolute state of discussion in /lit/

>>13126519
move out and explore the world

>>13126631
>I'm too stupid to understand this pls spoonfeed it to me /lit/

lol

>>13126646
I am exploring the world—with the power of imagination! Heh heh.

>>13123833
It does, on my second read it almost seemed simplistic. You either have to really pay attention and likely take notes or just accept a certain amout of confusion on the first read.

>>13124385
More or less correct.

>>13127895
GR isn't without purpose

>>13124385
>”writes without purpose”
>he doesn’t see the purpose in Pynchon

>>13123833
Towards the end of the 2nd read-through, maybe