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Zzz...

>> No.2687432

2d4u

>> No.2687436

How is CLo49 even boring? That shit was entertaining and hilarious as fuck.

>> No.2687438

>>2687436
I found it boring, not op. Pynchon, not even once.

>> No.2687441

>>2687436

no dragons

>> No.2687443

Hilarius!

>> No.2687448

I just finished this. I thought it was good. Solidly entertaining, a quick little read.

>> No.2687455

This book genuinely scared me. Best treatment of a conspiracy theory I've read.

>> No.2687467

Oedipa Maas is mai waifu.

>> No.2687493

>>2687420
I don't even like Pynchon that much but I don't know how you can call him boring.

>> No.2687497

>>2687420
Bullshit, it's anything but boring.

My main problem with it was how it was nothing fucking special. I have no clue why people praise it like it's some modern masterpiece. It's decent stuff, moderately and pleasingly deep, but it's just a cleverly written mystery, and it stops abruptly. Not inding out was a good touch, but just cutting off mid-scene as silly.

Was the doctor scene the climax? It felt like a random scene that wasnt' even a part of buildup. Was the borderline stream-of-consciousness segment before the end a denounement? The book's form is fucked up, and the author said so himself, too.

It's good, but it's not very good. People praising it loudly (let alone "studying" it) are imbeciles.

>> No.2688439

Pynchon himself is a little too hard on it

>> No.2688455

>>2687497

Nailed it.
The only reason people recommend it is to get a taste of Pynchon without having to commit to one of his tomes.
Written for money and it shows.

>> No.2688470

>>2688455
>Written for money and it shows.

We're talking about Crying of Lot 49, not Inherent Vice.

>> No.2688479

>>2688470
am i the only one who liked inherent vice

>> No.2688492

>>2688439
Sauce on Pynchon being hard on it?

>> No.2688504

>>2688492

Introduction to his short story collection "Slow Learner". It's even available online.

>> No.2688505

>>2688492
Pynchon is hard on all his writing.

If you've read Slow Learner, he basically calls all the stories shit in the intro.

>> No.2688508

>>2688492

"The next story I wrote was The Crying of Lot 49, which was marketed as a 'novel,' and in which I seem to have forgotten most of what I thought I'd learned up until then."

>> No.2688625

Who gives a shit what Pynchon says about it?

I thought it was excellent.

>> No.2688632

>>2688505

Well to be fair they're definitely not his best work.

>> No.2688792

>>2688508
It's barely dismissive but he still probably doesn't think it's his best.

Methinks he favours Mason & Dixon the most, as he should. Seeing as how it's clearly his best.

CoL 49 is a novella THAT NEEDS TO BE READ TWICE TO BE APPRECIATED/UNDERSTOOD.

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2688793

It's so dense.