/lit/ - Literature

>>16587560
Was Pynchon in the movie? Is there a screenshot?

>>16587567
it´s barely visible but some guy claimed he found it some years ago

https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.VJu1absRuVA7RQDN26g-wQHaGU&pid=15.1

>>16587608
>https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.VJu1absRuVA7RQDN26g-wQHaGU&pid=15.1
its too blurry, i cant even tell if its a person or not

>>16587567
People claim he was either some dude in a clear restaurant shot who looks nothing like him or some blur seen through a dirty window over Owen Wilson's shoulder. I've never actually watched the movie, I started the thread because I just finished the book.

>>16587608
you deserve each other

>>16587616
Did you like it?

>>16587616
The movie is pretty good but i read this article where PTA was expecting Pynchon to help him but sorta just left him to make it whatever he wanted, and ever since it sorta has this feeling of meandering for a meaning or a point but just doesn’t really deliver what it thought it could. It was entertaining tho

>>16587630
Overall, it was good. I had really high expectations because GR is one of my favorite novels ever. IV was fun and explored some interesting stuff, but it clearly wasn't his masterwork. Which is alright, nobody could do that every time.
I was expecting the ending to be a bit more substantial than it was. He essentially just rewrote TCoL49 with 200 filler pages about getting high and a way less ambiguous, surprisingly fairytale-esque ending for Pynchon. I suspect that as he's gotten older he's lost the capacity or desire to be quite as cruel to his characters as when he was younger and edgier, but I've only read TCoL49, GR, and this, so I'll have to read him more widely to confirm that.

>>16587608
>>16587615
>I spend my time spamming literature boards with pornography

>>16587560
This book was cozy and funny. Literally just Raymond Chandler with weed instead of a bottle of rye and easy reading to boot.

>>16587608
I don’t know if I’m convinced that’s him, it definitely has resemblance, but ultimately there’s no way to know.

>>16587676
Its actually kinda based anon. I think i might spam a cooking board with bionicle porn.

>>16588653
>bionicle porn.
this can't be real...

listen to it on audiobook a couple months ago, enjoyed it a lot, but i think a lot when over my head

>>16589047
What do you think you missed?
I don't think it's as thematically deep as a lot of his other writing, more just a way to capture the setting that he loved living through most. You might have assumed a lot went over your head that just wasn't there.

>>16587670
i didnt like iv or col49 cuz both felt lacking in the menacing conspiracy department. all the connections were made py the character and pointed out and i was left with a so what feeling. how does gr compare?

>>16589399
i thought iv was thematically strong (the story of the sinking island, the record analogy with how things go round but also inward so its different but not really, the acid trip, the melancholy of times changing in the 70s, hips vs squares) but the story wasnt that interesting

bump.

IV is top 3 Pynchon alongside GR, and M&D

>>16590615
this. GR>IV>M&D>TCoL49>V for top 5

>>16587560
Groovy

>>16589727
>how does gr compare?
There is a similar menacing conspiracy, but it's unnamed (usually just referred to as Them) and plays much higher stakes. Rather than it being some kind of cartoon villain league, the implication is more that They aren't a cohesive group at all, but just everyone who figured out that war profiteering was going to pay off big, so They stoked the fires of the Second World War from both the Allied and Axis sides. It's much vaguer, and the ending is much darker, because it's repeatedly hit home that even if those people are dealt with, the fact that it's such a lucrative business will never stop being true and others will fill in that gap to keep the cycle going.

>>16587615
>>16587608
You've got gay porn saved to your computer, reflect on your life choices

>>16587560
Memes aside this novel is comfy as fuck. It's an absolute joy to read. The movie is alright.

>>16587560
Hated this book. Literally typical pynchon mixed with the big luboski.

>>16592288
You say that like it's a bad thing

>>16590853
IV above MD?

>>16587608
its cute when dudes shave their asses. or maybe they just don't grow hair there. Gavin Mcinnes has a clean ass and I assume he doesn't shave. hmm.