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Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:04:00 2015 No.6323499 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck is happening

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:06:47 2015 No.6323511 >>6323499 The birth of a great author.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:07:01 2015 No.6323512 >>6323499 That's the best fucking cover. Where can I buy it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:09:31 2015 No.6323521 I just began reading this a few days ago. People are getting nose jobs and hunting for alligators. It's madness.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:13:26 2015 No.6323531 >>6323512 http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553246860/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0?ie=UTF8&sr=8-2&qid=1427472744

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:00:02 2015 No.6323647 Just finished Mondaugen's chapter and got enough into the next one to read the part with SHOCK and SHROUD What the actual fuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:04:19 2015 No.6323658 >>6323499 For once you've finished the novel http://www.jstor.org/stable/441592?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:07:17 2015 No.6323666 >>6323658 Anyonw have the pdf of this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:13:33 2015 No.6323684 >>6323666 Sorry I don't

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:00:40 2015 No.6323838 >>6323666 https://drive.google.com/a/tcd.ie/file/d/0B-UNkz-rlC-FV3VLTHp5bkZvdm8/view?usp=sharing

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:09:15 2015 No.6323861 File: 58 KB, 468x423, 1427074156112.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6323838 Thanks a bunch cousin

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:19:20 2015 No.6323893 >>6323499 How difficult is the book?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:23:02 2015 No.6323906 >>6323893 Well, I'm having a harder time understanding V. Than I did with GR. Mainly because of how quickly it shifts subject and characters.Maybe I'm just retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:25:55 2015 No.6323918 >>6323499 Finished it a few days ago. Loved it, still mulling it over

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:26:54 2015 No.6323921 >>6323906 Damn, what did you read before GR, and was that a struggle?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:29:34 2015 No.6323928 >>6323921 I read Lot 49, Bleeding Edge, and Against the Day. GR was a lot of fun to read. There were parts where I didn't know what was happening but still laughed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:38:48 2015 No.6323957 >>6323658 The reverse Dorian Gray parallel in this is a horrible stretch

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:51:00 2015 No.6323991 >>6323918 Is it supposed to be confusing? I'm like at pg 75 and I'm not entirely sure what's going on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:52:18 2015 No.6323994 >>6323906 But GR is constantly shifting subjects and characters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:54:53 2015 No.6323999 >>6323991 Yeah, but it's not that hard. I always thought of each chapter as individual scenes. Think that mindset helped

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 14:59:08 2015 No.6324012 >>6323991 It all comes together. The BIG problem I had was with Stencil and his speaking in third person while also referring to his father as Stencil. Then 2 or so chapters later they explain it. Great book, though.

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 15:02:26 2015 No.6324024

>>6323994
Right. So did Against the Day. Whenever it did shift I was able to pick up on it after awhile, mainly because GR was profound as hell and Against the Day was hilarious so that did grab my attention. With V. I kind of have an idea on what's happening but I feel like I'm missing out.

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 15:11:19 2015 No.6324051

>>6323906
>>6324024

The way I keep track of it, is that whever it's a chapter about someone other than Stencil or Profane (like the vignettes in Egypt) then it has to do with V. or something relevant to Stencil's dad.

Basically, the novel has two settings: Stoners and layabouts in the 1950s, and espionage in the late 19th/early 20th century.
I don't know if that's entirely correct as I'm only half way through it myself, but that seems to be the pattern.

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 16:16:21 2015 No.6324280

>>6324024
>>6324051
The "present"/Profane chapters are self-explanatory, but the past ones follow Stencil's reconstitution of events based on what info he's gathered. IIRC the title of the first Stencil chapter is the only thing that clues you in on this for a long while.

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 16:59:58 2015 No.6324451

>>6324280
I thought about this, but they're awfully detailed to be just that, unless Stencil is filling in gaps. I think the Mondaugen story is another point to these sections being information Stencil has gathered, but how would he have such detailed and intimate information, especially from the Florence chapter?

There seems to be a convergence on Godolphin, Victoria, Vheissu, and ancilliary people that are involved, like the Gaucho and Vera

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