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Anyone else read this, and just not feeling it?
It read like a bad mix of the best parts of V. and Inherent Vice.
Not that it itself was bad, just kinda meh.
I actually had put it down a few nights ago with only about ten pages left (Brock and Vato and Blood all together), and wasn't even motivated to finish it until earlier today.
Wouldn't recommend, would tell someone to read V. instead.

Thoughts?

>> No.5221872

>>5221230
I just bought this because I saw a first edition of it. It's nice looking but I don't plan on reading it for quite a while.

>> No.5222775

It's the only Pynchon I haven't yet read, and I plan on reading it soon just so I can say that I've read all his novels. I don't really think it sounds all the interesting.

>> No.5222785

>>5221230
>>5222775
Where should I start with Pynchon? I'm planning on The Crying Of Lot 49 because it is short, popular, and the summaries/reviews of his other books make it seem like that and Gravity's Rainbow are my only two realistic options. But Gravity's Rainbow is long and sounds iffy.

>> No.5222792

>>5222785
Don't read Gravity's Rainbow first. Every single month there is a thread where OP says he started reading it because he heard "Pynchon is good and it's real hard" and then stops after ten pages because it's too hard. You might as well start with TCoL49, it's what everyone does unless they read V. which is way longer.

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5222797

>>5222785

>> No.5222799

>>5222797
/mu/ pls go

>> No.5222801

>>5222792
I read Gravity's Rainbow as my first Pynchon book when I was 17.

There's nothing intrinsically impossible with reading GR first, as long as you have perseverance. And you have the advantage of starting out with one of his greatest books. That said, really, any option is fine, Pynchon's a great writer. Whatever works for you.

>> No.5222809

>>5222797
what I heard was that the vintage edition has errors.

>> No.5222810

>>5222801
Yeah I read it as my second and it was fine but that doesn't change the fact that every few weeks someone is bitching about it being "incomprehensible".

>> No.5222818

>>5222809
The vintage editions are fine. The covers at the bottom the OP subjectively dissed are also by vintage and fine. Vintage has a third cover that is also fine.

>> No.5222820

>>5222799
>I hate having an easy response to every single "how to pynchon post"

I've never been to /mu/, but you are fucking dumb.

>> No.5222828

>>5222809
Nothing wrong with the Vintage Editions.

>> No.5222834

>>5222792
>>5222797
Thanks! That helps guys

>> No.5222840

>>5222834
No problem. V. is a great book, as is The Crying of Lot 49. Gravity's Rainbow has some characters from V. in it, so just to "get" it, I find that it's best to have read V. first.

>> No.5222855

>>5222840
Bodine is in Entropy and Mason & Dixon too. He's just a recurring dude Pynchon likes.

>> No.5222869

>>5222855
Well, he is funny as shit so it's understandable.

>> No.5222903

>>5222818
>>5222828
what about the blueprint covered? I'm seeing it on sale for $8

>> No.5222920

>>5222903
Blueprint should be fine. As far as everyone here knows, it's only the black & white cover that's missing a sentence.

>> No.5222925

>>5222903
I don't know if there's anything confirmed. I've heard that it's got at least the one omitted sentence, but it probably doesn't have other stuff like fucked up pages.

>> No.5224762

>>5222925
It isn't every edition either. Some copies are correct, but I wouldn't risk it.