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I finished it 3 days ago and I feel like I have finished literature. I haven't been able to read anything since, except some poems of Yeats and some pages of Burroughs.

>> No.19591622

>>19591608
PYNCHED.com

>> No.19591658
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>>19591608
lol that's like his worst one

>> No.19592682

>tfw only learned that most american copies of V are a first edition after getting halfway through
https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/403/

>> No.19593673

>>19591608
You beat the final boss. You never need to read again. Congratulations, god I wish I could see your smile

>> No.19593699

>>19591658
worst one Vineland

>> No.19593710

>>19591608
>I finished it 3 days ago
>I haven't been able to read anything since

>> No.19593783

>>19593710
I usually read a hundred pages a day so the change is brutal. And beyond that I don't feel like reading at all.
>>19593673
For the moment I feel uneasy but at the same time appeased. It's strange.

>> No.19594521 [DELETED] 

This reeks of youth. OP, be honest, are you old enough to be using 4chan?

>> No.19594564

>>19591608
Your post is infantile, as there is no such thing as "finishing literature", but it has some real basis to it, namely that classical writers are repetitive, bland and created such similar parameters of taste that, with the obvious exceptions (Dante, Cervantes etc.) most of them look inevitably mediocre. Barthes talks about this in Writing Degree Zero.
Anyway, I recommend that you read more modernist/post-modernist/avant-garde/whatever-you-wanna-call-it-writers.

Here are three lists that will help you:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/121318.William_H_Gass_s_50_Pillars
https://thegreatestbooks.org/lists/36

Gass and Barthelme were two major 'post-modern' writers, of the same kind of intelligence and relevance as Thomas Pynchon.
You're on the right path, or at least on a path which recognizes its own inherent wrongness and has the guts to laugh about it, unlike most others.

>> No.19594577

>>19594564
>three
Two.

Fix'd.