/lit/ - Literature

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Im not participating but i truly wish you guys luck in reading the meme book from front to back. You guys are the real mvps *wipes tear*

i hope so, maybe then we can have a month of good threads and then forget about it, finally

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>>7167003
I hope you guys do. I read it this summer and it was pretty manageable with the companion reader, which you honestly don't need if you're discussing it on here. Would love to chat with you guys as you go.

Just remember: keep the divining rod at home, enjoy the roller coaster the first time around. I myself cannot wait for my 2nd reading.

IT'S HAPPENING.

I'm in, OP.

>>7167034
>companion reader
which one

>>7167003
Sure yeah, how bout some sentence bits for those of us reading the ebook. Or I guess we'll go by percentage, not all regular chunks but and overshoot a bit.

>>7167092
Spartan as can be; it got the job done.

>http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/rainbow.htm

Only use this if you aren't a cuck and you won't read ahead.

>>7167003

Yeah we should do this. Need a date for it though

>>7167092
P.s. I mainly used this for clarity, after each sprocket section I would read over the companion summary of said section, helps a lot at the beginning and end of the books, but the middle 400 pages should be understood and comprehended by most close-readers, aside from pointing out when Pynchon is making subtle references to earlier in the book.

>>7167173
settled on Oct 1

I have the vintage classics copy...that's fine right?

>How could you turn to post-modernism after all I've taught you? Did you learn nothing of the destructiveness of irony after reading by book!

>>7167349
oh yea?

>>7167334

Yeah the vintage copy is fine. The where's Waldo cover one looks a bit shit and has some occasionally blurry ink (varies from copy to copy, mediocre printing I guess) but that's about the only problems, still perfectly readable, all the issues are aesthetic.

If you got Vintage one with the rainbow rocket stuff on the front you've pretty much gotten the best copy possible short of an original printing hardback.

is bleeding edge about the deep web?

>>7167565
yes, an early, pomo version of it

>>7167586
I'm intrigued now..Can you elaborate without spoilers, if you read it of course...

Yep! I am looking forward to it; I just finished TCoL49 again in prep :)

>>7167605
It's a spin on a detective novel, and part of it involves the early web as a cyber-underground, seen through a program/virtual reality simulation (DeepArcher), pre-yuppification. Essentially shows the Internet both transforming and reflecting transformations in the real world

>>7167646
:)

>>7167708
*earnestly, with radiating kindness and kinship originating from having like- interests* :)

Looks like the ol' notebook's coming out again.
>implying I would take a steady photo so you could ape my hard work:^)

>>7167010
>59 days
>as little as 2 pages a day
ARE YOU CRAZY? ARE YOU OUTTA YA MOIND?

Should be ~30 days. People will lose interest at slug-speed like they did with the Infinite Jest group.

>>7168362
Its for people who work or do shit with their lives, who can only read on their lunch break or train or whatveer

>>7168377

That and it's nice to have time to read something else on the side of crazy peaux-meaux shit.

Also, it's nice to have our discussions focusing of smaller sections at a time, so they can be more in depth.

>>7168362
Silly. It's a matter of time management. You can work 9-5 and easily find more time than that to read in a day. Why even bother reading something like Gravity's Rainbow if you're going to devote so little effort to it? Do you audiobook Ulysses on the side for whenever you're taking a shit?

>>7167010
>488 - 491
>532 - 536
>577 - 580
Seriously?

>>7168403
Thing is obviously noone will follow that, and attempt to stick to a schedule will dissolve within the first week. Happened with IJ too. Everyone either racing ahead or falling way behind. Why not do a steady 25 pages a day? We're grown ups here. If we want to round out the scene we'll read on. We don't need a schedule that makes days out of 2 pages to avoid triggering OCD.

>>7168411
What if I literally can't read more than 2 pages in a day because I am black?

>>7168420
Get the audiobook

>>7168425

I hear on one of the audiobooks, the narrator sings the songs. Is this true?

Are we going to read Ulysses if this turns out to be a success?

>>7168362
Yeah, honestly, 30 pages a day would not be doable for most readers on this board. I consider myself an intermediate level reader, and reading large swaths of Parts I and IV would be very ill-advised; pacing is your friend.

>>7168425
I advise against this. GR will not make any sense on an audiobook unless you sit and devote your full attention to listening on 1x speed in which case you are taking more time than it would to just read

>>7168754
the GR audiobook is fucking great though

>>7168757
It's like reading the 2001 A Space Odyssey novel and thinking you've seen the film