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How many people here have even read this, the shortest and most accessible of Pynchon's books?

>> No.11827056

Plenty of people, I'm sure. Did you mean to post this in another thread?

>> No.11827075

>>11827046
not ironic except for the fact that i could google it in a sec but i want you to talk to me
>what'S this book about?

>> No.11827183

>>11827046
I did, it was fun. : )

>> No.11827204

>>11827046
Like half the board, faggot.

>> No.11827208

>>11827046
I’m eternally a pleb insofar as I liked this book better than any other pinecone I’ve read.

>> No.11827310

I read it.
Thought it was ok.

>> No.11827736

I read it and was absolutely appalled at the blatant adultery. All of the "casual sex" that happens in this book is between two individuals married to other people. It is a sick yet truthful look into the lifestyle of America's filthiest generation and frankly I will not be reading any more work by that pervert Pinch-in

>> No.11827760

>>11827736
This but unironically

>> No.11827782
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11827782

GR is better

>> No.11827788

>>11827075
It's about a secret society that may or may not exist and the woman (Oedipa) who searches for them. Many silly things happen.

That's pretty much it. It's fun but a little juvenile (on purpose). Worth a read, but beware the hundreds of thousands of people that claim it is their favorite pynchon book without having bothered to read anything else by him.

>> No.11827791

>>11827736
>>11827760
You're both incorrigible asswipes.

>> No.11827804

>>11827046
I listened to it on a roadtrip three weeks ago and was bursting out laughing. I haven't read any of his other books, but judging just by Lot 49, I can't understand people saying Pynchon is a downer or a creep. The whole thing is just layers and layers of comedy, plus one long boring play.
>Mike Fallopian

>> No.11827863

This was Pynchon's best book and his only important work. The bxackground is that through the first hkalf of the 19th century all communication was by private courier, even going back to the days of the Templar knights. Royalty and major nobility nrrding to raise funds for conquest or public investment in infrastructure were at the mercy of the private couriers and early regional postal carriers like the Thurn and Taxis system operating in the Germanic states. A counterfeit courier conspiracy, known as the trystero countrrfeited T and T stamps and coopted their commissions taking control of communication out if the hands of nobility. Cut to the 20th century, and governments still execercise control, but is the trystero still active as an underground bypass of that control? Does this work foretell the crumbling of the Soviet Union and the American electoral system, both as victims off the ineffectively regulated internet?

>> No.11827876

>>11827863
>This was Pynchon's best book and his only important work.
yikes

>> No.11827878

>>11827863
You haven't actually read anything by him and just made that up on the spot after skimming a wiki page or two.

>> No.11827923

I've read all of his books except one, and isliked them all except lot49. Over the last 40 years I've given away 100 copies of the book and encouraged people to think about some of the ideas. I thought the the basic theme of uncontrollable information flow is the genesis of the greatest. Revolution since Luther.

>> No.11827935

trying to read gr after this was unbearable

>> No.11828268

>>11827046
It's my favorite one
>>11827782
Least favorite one
>>11827788
I've read 4 of his books.
>>11827863
>This was Pynchon's best book and his only important work.
That's an extreme point of view. I'll think it over.
>>11827935
I'd love it if you could elaborate. Every book I finished of his afterwards felt like a step down by the time I finished it. I feel that TCoL49 is his most dense and crammed-with-goodness work I've read that reading GR wasn't very special to me.

>> No.11828285

>>11827046

It's incredibly tone deaf, a weak attempt at writing by a sad, confused, old white man.

I prefer a little more flavor in my authors

>> No.11828303

>>11827046
the guy who wrote it thought it was shit why should you think differently

>> No.11828867

It's by no means his most accessible work only because it's short