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just finished this fucking thing last week, now my life feels empty, so what should i read?

>inb4 gravity's rainbow
i know i should read it but i want other options to consider too

>> No.6699204

>>6699198
Are you just trying to tackle suggested readings? If so then yeah, Gravity's Rainbow. If not then anything else.

>> No.6699215

The Recognitions by Gaddis is the up and coming postmodern doorstopper. Read it before it reaches meme status and you'll be able to get ahead of the game; you're woefully behind right now.

>> No.6699218

ive already read the recognitions, anything else?

>> No.6699219
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6699219

>>6699215
>up and coming
>publication date: 1955

>> No.6699356

>>6699198
im reading this now and not really feeling engrossed

>> No.6699389

>>6699215
300 pages in
more draining than IJ
can you do it??

>> No.6699418

>>6699218
Have you read any Gass? I started The Tunnel yesterday and it's blowing my mind like nothing has in a long time (probably since I first read Gaddis a year ago). He seems to be an overlooked postmodernist on /lit/.

Also if you haven't read any Pynchon yet I don't see any problem going for Gravity's Rainbow even if it's part of the meme trilogy. If you have I can understand wanting to diversify your reading.

>> No.6699635

>>6699198
Anything by James McElroy.

>> No.6699653

>>6699635
*Joseph

>> No.6699692

>>6699418
Not him, but Gass is fantastic.

The lack of discussion here regarding him does seem strange, what with /lit/'s apparent obsession with quality of prose over plot, but not as strange as its crutch for memes.

And even though he regarded himself as a "decaying modernist", I think we know very well he's, at the very least, an unwitting kind of postmodernist, as his friend Heide Ziegler also categorized him.
Middle C (2013) is also fun, which I'm close to having finished reading, but nothing compared to The Tunnel.

Anyway: if anyone would like to start with Gass, On Being Blue is a great introduction.