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I read this maybe 10 years ago and dont remember a lot of it. should I reread it this summer or move on to something different?

>> No.23409567

Re read it and checked

>> No.23409574

>>23409567
was waiting for this i guess i have to now. cowabunga brah

>> No.23409576

>>23409500
Checked. If you don't remember it, it's a shit book for you. Move on.

>> No.23409579

Idk anon but I’ve been wondering the same thing, and I enjoyed it when I read it in high school. I feel a lot of goodwill for him because I think a lot of the IJ hate after the first few years was just a cover for being anti- large ambitious novels by white men

>> No.23409609

>>23409579
by white "bad guys". apparently he was a bad guy

>> No.23409617

>>23409609
Not disagreeing but idk who they think of as white good guys. David Graeber? Pynchon is still safe I guess but Gravity’s Rainbow is one of those meme signifiers

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23409618

I listen to the audiobook every night before and during sleep. Been doing it for 2 months straight. It doesn't matter where I start. By now most of the gaps are filled.

>> No.23409625

>>23409617
pynchon clearly has something to hide

>> No.23410688

>>23409500
Definitely re-read it. You will remember things as you go along that will enhance second-time reading and that will take you to a different place than where you were the first time by the end of the novel.

>> No.23410961
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>>23409500
Nah read something better

>> No.23411456

>>23410961
be specific now !

>> No.23411457

>>23410688
the only thing is I don't want to revisit the place i was in at that time, but maybe it could be therapeutic

>> No.23411610

>>23411456
Nothing is better. No one has figured out what Wallace is doing in that book, no one has even get close since 1995.

>> No.23411668

>>23409500
>read 10 years ago
Same. It's too long and not quite good enough to deserve a full re-read. I read it at 25 and I think that's the perfect age. Not sure what it can offer me now. I would revisit passages if you want to. Was thinking about the weed addict guy this morning. I think passages and secondary literature on it will suffice.

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>>23411610
>It's supposed to be shit