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5615230 No.5615230 [Reply] [Original]

About to start with my first Pynchon novel.

What should I expect? Is it a good start point?

>> No.5615238

JUST
READ
IT

>> No.5615242

You get used to the style fast, don't worry about it

>> No.5615244

>>5615230
Not where I would start but who the fuck am I to stop you

>> No.5615254

I'm about two hundred pages away from finishing it OP, it might just be the best novel I've ever read.

>> No.5615260
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>>5615238
Yes

>>5615244
Where would you? Just out of interest, I don't know what to read afterwards.

>>5615254
Glad to hear that. I confess I have big expectations.

>> No.5615269

>>5615260
I would start with Lot 49 because that's where I started and Pynchon is my favorite author now. But Mason & Dixon might be his best, enjoy.

>> No.5615277

>>5615269
If I like it (and it seems there's no reason I shouldn't) that will be next. Thanks mate.

>> No.5615295

I started with GR and seriously it took me 100 pages to get used o the style. Is not a hard book. Same with Mason's Dick

>> No.5615406

Mason and Dixon was too hard for me, but I loved V., GR and L49. I'll retry it sometime.

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>> No.5616093

I started The Crying of Lot 49 today actually. The analogy with the painting at the end of chapter 1 blew me away.

>> No.5616114

This is gonna be a really strange question and I'm not going to explain why I'm asking...but...

Does anyone know the font/typeface used for the cover art?

>> No.5616157

>>5616114
That's not that strange a question, but I don't know anything about typefaces, so I can't help you

>> No.5616342

>>5616114
I'm at work now but in a few hours when I'm home I'll check the copy in my room to see if it says. I remember my copy of Bleeding Edge specified the typefaces so I'm guessing this one does too.

>> No.5617365

>>5616342
>>5616114
It's not in the book, and I looked around a little, the best I could find was this article: http://web.missouri.edu/~cohenss/M&D

Which claimed:
>Eighteenth-century typefaces, such as William Caslon’s, preserved the distinction between the two letters, linking them only at the end of the second, bottom stroke of the cursive capital E and the t. The ampersand on the cover of Mason & Dixon is Caslon’s

But I don't think the typeface is Caslon's, sorry. If you find out, I'd be interested to know too, it's kind of a better and less ubiquitous version of Papyrus.

>> No.5618178

>>5615238
This. How many fucking "where should I start with Pynchon threads" am I gonna see that a day?

>> No.5618202

>>5616064

Not OP but shit, I got the Penguin GR. Twas the only edition the nearest store had. Someone please tell me the errors in question are just typos and not entirely missing text.

>> No.5618206

>>5618202
There us half a sentence missing somewhere and it is supposedly not really important.

You shouldn't worry.

>> No.5618218

>>5618202
http://www.bookerrata.com/books/gravity.html

the typos are listed here (pretty minor) and you can google which sentence is cut off. it's been pointed out enough times, just mark the page number for when you get to it.