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What am I in for? Bout page 90 or so, and already the language has become easier to read.

Only other Pynchon ive tackled has been inherent vice.

Did you like mason dixon? Why or why not?

>> No.16066016

>>16065996
The clocks and the oceans is one of my favorite things ever written. I am about 3/4s through, enjoying it quite a bit.

>> No.16066054

>>16065996
His best. You'll get used to the language. Favorite part was the St. Helena chapters.

>> No.16066178

>>16065996
a modern american classic

>> No.16066256

>>16065996
It was the first Pynchon I read (currently reading GR as 2nd). I really really liked it. There were a few chapters in part 1 where I had to look up what was actually happening just because I'm not fluent in the historical context, no idea who Maskelyne is or what they're doing etc, but by part 2 it greatly smoothed out and the rest was very clear. Halfway through GR and still amazed how this guy can shift his prose style so hard between books.

>> No.16067868

Is Mason & Dixon easier to read than Gravity's Rainbow?

I read The Crying of Lot 49 because I was curious about Pynchon and his popularity on /lit/ and in the USA (I'm not from there) and, even if I liked the book as a whole after finishing it, before starting I wasn't really caught by the premise nor by the story when I started. Also because I heard it is the easiest book to understand and famirialized with his themes/style.

On the other hand, the premise of M&D seems really interesting to me. So I want it to be the next Pynchon book I read.

>> No.16067932

>>16067868
GR is relatively more opaque, but they're both up there