/lit/ - Literature

Where is everyone?

David Lynch is writing a book?

>>4113627

I don't think so. He may secretly be, though.

>>4113631
Why?

Getting what OP?

I loved Mulholland Drive. Eraserhead was meh, but the style was cool. Gonna try Inland Empire.

>>4113638

I thought Eraserhead was his best.

Either Twin Peaks or Elephant Man should be the "start here" point in that chart, imo.

>>4113638
Eraserhead isn't that bad once you consider that it was pretty much just a film school project, but, yeah leaving it to last is a pretty stupid move

Wtf is wrong with this board today?

This thread is about Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon. Are you getting it? Are you looking forward to it?

>>4113638
I'd also object to starting with Mulholland Drive. It's undoubtedly one of his best, but I'd work up to it with something a bit easier, like Blue Velvet.

>>4113664
don't, hes pretty terrible

how big is his house?

>>4113654

I'm getting it, but I'm not looking forward to it.

I'm not getting it, but I'm looking forward to it.

>>4113654
Oh shit, Pynchon lives in Glen Cove, that's a short drive from me.

I've heard of him recently but haven't read anything by him. Can you recommend a book of his to start with?

>>4113664
>Can you recommend a book of his to start with?
seconded

>>4113657
dis nigge knows the score

>>4113667
Against the Day

>>4113667
>>4113664

The Crying of Lot 49.

>>4113610
when are you going to make a decent post sunhawk?

>>4113664
I think the fastest way into Pynchon is actually by watching the entire David Lynch filmography. Start with Elephant Man.

>>4113674
So... his writing is akin to a David Lynch movie? That sounds like something I'd be interested in.

Incidentally I read The Blind Owl by some Persian guy and it felt Lynch-like...

>>4113685

He was trolling, son.

>>4113679
I know enough to know that you're rusing us mate

>>4113610
About to order it.

>>4113687
O-oh...

>>4113688

Fine, take Gravity's Rainbow, or, as a troll ITT has suggested, Against the Day as your entry point to Pynchon.

Cunt.

>>4113700
Whoa, sorry. I honestly thought you were fucking with me. I had heard CoL49 was difficult to get into for those unfamiliar with Pynchon.

>>4113712

It's his easiest book by miles.

You don't have to believe me though. You've already shown you're far too prone to accept something as true just because a poster on /lit/ said it.

>>4113700
How is AtD a troll recommendation

Sunhawk, you are exactly the kind of person who would need an "infographic" just to watch some of David Lynch's films.

Whenever I see these idiotic images, I always think "who the fuck is so retarded that this is at all serviceable?" You're the answer, Sunhawk.

>>4113719
It's also his worst

>>4113726
>worst
nigga have you ever heard of Vineland

>>4113726

I think they can be useful to some extent. When I first started reading Kafka I got 'The Trial' first and found it quite boring. When I eventually got around to the short stories I loved them, and 'The Trial' grew on me after reading the short fiction first.

Is it bad that the only lynch film I ever watched was Eraserhead?

>>4113730

Vineland is a myth, Pynchon never wrote it.

Do you guys think Pynchon browses 4chan? It'd seem like just his sort of thing

This is one of the worst threads I've seen on /lit/ in a very long time

>>4113667
Just go for the big cahoona m8...

Gravity's Rainbow

It's like anal, no use in trying to ease it in, just plunge it.

>>4114310
All postmodernists cruise the Chan. I've seen DeLillo's dick time-stamped dozens of times. David Foster Wallace killed himself because of a roll thread, it's a matter of public record.

>>4113610
>not getting a sleeping bag and setting up outside the bookstore

>>4113685
The best way to understand Pynchon is to listen to Ornette Coleman's Sound Grammar while writing "sez" over and over.

>>4114778
>no use trying to ease it in

>has never tried anal

>>4114778
buddy idk if u've dun anal

Is this /tv/?

>Inb4 it's pretentious so it must be /lit/

Hey, I left 4chan for a while and I was wondering, did anyone do anything about that Sunhawk problem? Some anon said they were going to Somerset, England, show up to his place and break his fingers (as well as his internet connection), did anything like that happened?

“Maxine notices this one party out on a remote curve of the bar, drinking you’d say relentlessly what will prove to be Jägermeister and 151, through a Day-Glo straw out of a 20-ounce convenience-store cup. . . . Sure enough it’s him, Eric Jeffrey Outfield, übergeek, looking, except for the bare upper lip and a newly acquired soul patch, just like his ID photo. He is wearing cargo pants in a camo print whose color scheme is intended for some combat zone very remote, if not off-planet, and a T-shirt announcing, in Helvetica, <p> REAL GEEKS USE COMMAND PROMPTS </p>, accessorized with a Batbelt clanking like a charm bracelet with remotes for TV, stereo and air conditioner, plus laser pointer, pager, bottle opener, wire stripper, voltmeter, magnifier, all so tiny that one legitimately wonders how functional they can be.”

>>4113718
> Introduction to Pynchon
> 1085 pages long book
> That imitates four other styles of writing
You can't get much out of AtD without having read Pulp fiction or other literature of the period the book takes place in, no.

>>4115482
Someone broke into his house and leaked his tripcode.

I'll probably get it closer to the end of the year. Too many other things I plan to read before it.

>>4113730
Vineland is certainly better than Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge.

>>4115482
This 30 something year old fuck and /mu/ will be here forever. It has been like this for ages. It's over

>>4115482
He leaked his tripcode so he yeh meh

Why doesn't anyone just just use tripcode explorer and copy sunhawk's new code?

Eraserhead is hardly Lynch's best. Also Sunhawk, why are you always surprised when your threads start to discuss your OP pic? It isn't that hard to download a pic of Bleeding Edge.

>>4115783
Sunhawk would be impossible to miss even if he posted anonymously.

>>4114783
>David Foster Wallace killed himself because of a roll thread