/lit/ - Literature

It's probably his weakest book (I've read everything but Bleeding Edge, gonna read that soon) but it is not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. The beginning is pretty solid but the middle gets kind of silly once he starts talking about ninjas.

>>20092293
What are this guys books like? Hes written like, 10 at most and almost never shows his face yet is extremely popular.

>>20092336
It’s the first Pyncon book I’ll read. A friend had already recommended it to me and I noticed you guys like him. Came across it at the bookstore and figured I’d give him a shot.

>>20092319
Thanks

>>20092293
i only ever get twenty pages into it, i think without heavy psychedelic use he was just a goofy autist

>>20092293
I enjoyed it and consider it to be a quite good novel. I consider it best of his shorter works.

>>20092336
Pop culture is just catching up to Gravity's Rainbow

The very beginning is cool, Zoyd being a stoned hippie slacker and all. Then you get this ninja-chick-floozy-with-an-uzi section, which, for me, was a lull. The part in Japan(was it?) was pretty cool. It is a light read, sometimes funny, in an adolescent way.

Pynchon worst novel which is why I never read it

It's probably my favorite Pynchon book after Inherent Vice, read it not too long ago and loved it immensely (middle part is a bit lackluster though)

>>20092869
>Pynchon worst novel which is why I never read it
t then how do you know?

>>20092971
Why would I read his worst novel is a waste of time big time

>>20092979
It is considerably better than lot 49, by all measures.

>>20092979
your loss bro, the book is pretty great

>>20092979
Everyone knows any author's worst novel basically doesn't exist. So actaully his worst novel that you might realistically read is his second worst. So that's the one you really shouldn't read.

>>20093001
all this ranking books is for pussies

>>20092979
/lit/ in a nutshell

>>20092319
Nice to see a fairly, unbiased view on it.