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Is this a readable edition? Also general pynchon thread I guess

>> No.7342029

its readable just ugly af.

>> No.7342048

>>7342019
Just read The Crying of Lot 49 last week and loved it. I want to read more of him but there's only Inherent Vice in my native language.
>inb4 translations

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>>7342019
It's readable of course, but as >>7342029 says, it's hideous.
Not that that fact really matters. If you're reading Pynchon, the likelihood is that no one but you is looking at your bookshelf.

>> No.7342073

>>7342048
Since when did I say translation?

>> No.7342079
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7342079

>>7342073
hence >inb4

Also, I comment this on every Pynchon thread I see, but when he dies (which is an event we should really be preparing for), there won't be a photo to remember him by, and his funeral will almost certainly be private. Seems a shame. I would like to know the face of the person that gave me such happiness in my solitude.

>> No.7342094

>>7342079
It will leak almost certainly. Pychon likes his privacy but he is not a shut in or recluse.

He guards his privacy because he lives around people. I don't think he will care if people learn about him after he dies, he just does not want cat calls when he walks the streets.

>> No.7342117

>>7342094
>It will leak almost certainly.
Well yes, most people do when they die, but I fail to see how that's relevant.

>> No.7342124

>>7342117
lol

>> No.7342150

>>7342117
Crude, dude

>> No.7342165

>>7342117
Top kék

>> No.7342185

>>7342019
think that its printed on non acid free paper so its prone to smudging

>> No.7342236

Since this is /pyn/, which edition of Gravity's Rainbow should I get? I remember reading somewhere that one of them has a lot of typos and missing sentences.

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>>7342236
This edition apparently has like one sentence missing, which is a shame because the cover is nice.

I would go with the Vintage one. The cover is nice, and they can be trusted.

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7342293

>>7342255
This one?

How does it hold up? I'm worried about spine creases or breaks, since it's over 900 pages.

>> No.7342298

>>7342293
That's the one, yeah

The quality is alright. I don't know if you've read Infinite Jest, but it has more pages than GR, and holds up well.

>> No.7342309

>>7342293
It's fine, I own this edition and Vintage usually have good spines.

>> No.7342310

>>7342298
Thanks.

How is it compared to V.? Mondaugen's Story and Fausto's Confessions are probably the best shit I've read in...ever.

>> No.7342344

>>7342310
If you liked Mondaugen's story, you will love GR.

>> No.7342345

>>7342344
Thanks again. <3

Really looking forward to it now.

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7342364

>>7342094
>post yfw Thomas Pynchon has written an autobiography that is planned to be released posthumously.

>> No.7342378

>>7342364
Would be legendary. And, actually, a fucking amazing idea. Thomas Pynchon writes a book called Thomas Pynchon and it's this whole paranoid thing about his characters haunting him and shit.... (just one option). The possibilities are endless.

>> No.7342381

>>7342364
along with pictures of him from the 70s and 80s

>> No.7342426

>>7342117
go to bed Thomas, you're almost 70.

>> No.7342430

>>7342079
He already posts on /lit/, isn't that good enough for you?

>> No.7342438

>>7342364
Not a bad idea. I'll get started on that.