Meme Trilogy General

[Anonymous No.12434078]

This is a thread for anyone dedicated to reading any or all of these works this year. Discuss anything about them, ask anything, you know when to use spoiler tags.

I'm around page 50 of Infinite Jest so still got plenty to go. It's been great though.

[Anonymous No.12434422]

>>12434078
Read IJ last year and absolutely loved it plan on re-reading sometime this year. I got two more sections of Ulysses and then going to try GR. They're fun

[Anonymous No.12434440]

>>12434078

Read IJ multiple times many years ago. 200 pages left in GR. Is Ulysses as incomprehensible as its reputation implies?

[Anonymous No.12434496]

>>12434078
read them all yesterday, started finnegans wake 5 min ago and I'm already halfway through, but had to stop to give them thirsty bitches a good fuck (you guys know how it is haha)
anyways, cool books, will write a proper critique once I'm done here
gotta go, bitch's about to cum lol

[Anonymous No.12434512]

>>12434440
joyce let enough of it be readable that the incomprehensible sections are even more frustrating. with that said, it's an insanely beautiful book, whether or not you see the references.

[Anonymous No.12434521]

>>12434440
Not really, if you read Portrait before Ulysses it will give you a good taste of what's to come. Your best bet is to just dive in and take your time with it, like IJ its one of those things you'll be coming back to again and again.

[Anonymous No.12434539]

>>12434440
Don't worry too much about understanding every little bit, it's an incredibly fun and beautiful book to just read. Reading The Odyssey and Hamlet is useful to get the most basic allusions. Don't bother with anything like the Bloomsday Book on your first read

[Anonymous No.12434558]

One last chapter of Ulysses and I'll have bested the Trilogy. Not sure if I enjoy this one the most but it's almost certainly the best of them.

[Anonymous No.12434574]

>>12434440
>200 pages left in GR
Pucker up, bucko.

[Anonymous No.12434580]

>>12434078
IJ is probably the easiest and also a really fun ride.
GR is harder and also just as fun in a different way
Ulysses is the hardest but also the most classic literature of the three.

[Anonymous No.12434588]

>>12434078
IJ is fun and pretty easy. Reading Illuminatus! currently and I feel like the two books could be classed together as "trashy maximalism." Read Moby Dick recently, I feel like it would be the fourth book if we made up a Meme Tetralogy. Gravity's Rainbow irritates me but I'm going to try Inherent Vice and Vineland to ease into Pynchon. Started Ulysses a while ago and loved the beach scene but didn't get much further.

[Anonymous No.12434594]

Gonna go for GR this year. Read Ulysses a couple years ago and loved it, I revisit certain chapters from time to time. Tried to read infinite jest that same year and gave up after 200 pages (plus however many pages of endnotes that is). It just wasn't the right rhythm for me at the time, and I probably won't go for it this year.

[Anonymous No.12434623]

>>12434588
>Gravity's Rainbow irritates me but I'm going to try Inherent Vice and Vineland to ease into Pynchon.
>Vineland
I have bad news...

[Anonymous No.12434624]

>>12434588
I enjoyed Pynchon's other epics (M&D, AtD) quite a bit more than GR, but I also read them with several more years of serious literature experience. M&D especially is Moby-Dick levels of comfy.

[Anonymous No.12434661]

Gerty MacDowell's chapter is my favorite thing I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.12434662]

>>12434623
>>Vineland
>I have bad news...
Yes, I've heard it critiqued, but a friend lent it to me and a well-rounded perspective of an author requires tackling his worst works as well as his best.
>>12434624
I'm not super ambitious about reading all of his work unless I fall in love with one of his books. I was memed into buying Gravity's Rainbow and I was given Vineland, but I'm actually excited about Inherent Vice, it seems light.

[Anonymous No.12435198]

Bump

[Anonymous No.12435260]

>>12434078
Thought about reading Ulysses, but was turned off by some Read/Expected/Got memes.

[Anonymous No.12435266]

GR let me down at the end. he should have fleshed out the last few sections and it would have been 10/10

[Anonymous No.12435341]

Started IJ 4 years ago, got to the part where the buff dude (Don?) is in a hospital bed and was visited by Hal's dad's ghost (le Shakespeare).
Started Ulysses two days ago, Lotus Eaters now, Proteus was a fucking nightmare.

[Anonymous No.12435465]

>>12434422
IJ is such a great re-read because (at least for the first few hundred pages) you're less concerned with figuring out what's happening and you just get to enjoy the writing

[Anonymous No.12435484]

>>12434558
so whats it about so far

[Anonymous No.12435615]

Reminder

[Anonymous No.12435658]

I finished Portrait last night, now 7 books into the Odyssey, and when I'm done I'll finally start Ulysses.

I can't read the other two any time soon because I don't own them and I own too many unread books as it is. But I do own Vineland, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day so I can read those. I read lot 49 and liked it quite a bit, definitely seems like the kind of book that benefits immensely from re-reading.

[Anonymous No.12437136]

Trying to do Infinite Jest first followed by Gravity's Rainbow and finally Ulysses. Wish me luck anons.

[Anonymous No.12437276]

>>12435484
>Shakespeare
>Jewry
>Butts
>Cuckoldry
>Inability to relate to others
By far the most interesting thing about the book is the use of language; every chapter approaches language completely differently, and that dramatically alters how the events are interpreted.

[Anonymous No.12437536]

Don Quixote should be a part of the meme triology

[Anonymous No.12437554]

did pynchon just give up at the end?

[Anonymous No.12437564]

>>12437554
A cow sez moo

[Anonymous No.12437742]

>>12437136
Good luck!

[Anonymous No.12437854]

>finally reading GR after putting it off for years
>it's boring obnoxious trash
>explain yourself, /lit/