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16653779 No.16653779 [Reply] [Original]

Pure kino. Hipsters are all still this retarded.

>> No.16654196

>>16653779
Reading JR and just got to 100 pages today. It’s really good and I’m excited for my copy of TR to come in November. Will probably read it when it arrives like I’m doing with JR.

>> No.16654202

>>16653779
Definitely reminded me of the university "artsy" type parties I used to attend before I realized just about anyone that wasn't majoring in liberal arts was a better conversationalist than the dorks that attended the same classes I did.
You have to go back an reread the Gass intro and Green's FtB to appreciate the fact that all these reviewers that shit on Gaddis were getting called out for just what they were doing and they completely skipped over it.

>> No.16654224

>>16654196
>reading JR fresh out of university
>remember thinking, How could a grown man ever let a sixth grader boss him around and pay for his salary?
>going into the workforce, you're lucky to find anyone even approaching the maturity of an 11-year-old
JR is one of those books that you appreciate more the older and wiser you get

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based

>> No.16655486

>>16653779
Gaddis is like cheap imitation of Pynchon. Lucky he came before otherwise nobody would have have given a fuck about him.

>> No.16655491

>Shout out to my homie C-Ray, my other homie Golop-P, my other Crazy Ken, my other Johnny Diaspora...

So these are the "recognitions" they were talking about, eh? How many pages of this crap??

>> No.16655499

>>16655491
900

>> No.16656210

>>16655486
>clearly hasn't read Gaddis
Gaddis' style is nothing like Pynchon's other than the fact that they both write long and complex books. You couldn't seriously find a work from each and compare them and say they are similar enough to say that either is just a cheap imitation of the other. Nice bait, here's your "You".

>> No.16656295

>>16653779
is this a good book to read if i want to tone down my california-leftist attitude?

>> No.16656572

>>16656210
V. is literally 'The Recognitions' fanfic. There was a very famous hoax when people believed Gaddis to be Pynchon in the 60s-70s

>> No.16656593

>>16653779
Very funny book

>> No.16656603

Every homosexual male in the book wants to fuck young boys

>> No.16656605

>>16656603
Like I said very funny book.

>> No.16657532

>>16653779
It’s hilarious but now that I’m attempting to read it for a second time I’m finding it almost too packed with esoteric allusion. Like I can’t read this thing for 5 minutes without having to look up which star system this mother fucker is referencing.

I read 400 pages of this on my first try somehow without researching the esoterica. Must be a dilettante

>> No.16657566

>>16656572
>There was a very famous hoax when people believed Gaddis to be Pynchon in the 60s-70s
People still believe this, faggot.

>> No.16657663

>>16657566
Yeah, dumb asses

>> No.16657683

>>16657566
Pynchon is Gaddis' pseudonym so he can use inverted commas instead of the em dash

>> No.16657919

Just got into it yesterday, my dad had a copy lying around(a german copy, but cool nonetheless). Sometimes the prose get's really cool, like the syntax, get's longwinded but still the sentences remain so sharp and focussed, like you would never find in Faulkner, Joyce and these other long-sentence doods. But the references are very high cultured and might get over my head, since I am of the uncultured age of the zoomer.
I hope, I don't get filtered.
Sincerely,
Anon

>> No.16657960

I only read the first chapter over a year ago but its prose was so vivid and so concise that I remember it like it was yesterday. It's a shame that I was loaded down with classwork at the time or else I would have finished it then.

>> No.16658096

>>16657919
I don't think you should already know many of the references Gaddis spits out, he spent a lot of time researching and had literally barrels of research material that went into his works.