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/lit/ Reading Group Anonymous Thu Oct 1 20:30:41 2015 No.7184027 [Reply] [Original]

DAY 1

Gravity's rainbow: The reading group

So, to get started, I'm not impressed thus far.

What do you think?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 21:00:59 2015 No.7184084 >>7184027 Now I'm sad... Anyway, I think that GR'll pick up. the language is beautiful enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 21:08:09 2015 No.7184091 >>7184027 I read it several months ago but I wasn't really feeling it immediately either. Though after page 20 or so I was hooked.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:04:58 2015 No.7184211 how the fuck are you not hooked at banana breakfast?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:08:48 2015 No.7184221 File: 40 KB, 1024x768, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Season's knives! Velvet dark! Plucked out of the sky like a steel banana! Based Pinecone freebasing off the English language, David Foster Checklist can't touch diz.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:09:42 2015 No.7184226 >reading GR as your first Pynchon yikes

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:11:11 2015 No.7184232 File: 111 KB, 480x640, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7184226 Bad idea

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:22:15 2015 No.7184256 File: 1.98 MB, 250x187, 1385774914700.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >an actual reading group on /lit/! >it's for nineteentotwentyyearoldcore pomo kitsch

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:24:15 2015 No.7184260 >>7184256 this is the best book written in the last 60 years

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:26:12 2015 No.7184264 >>7184256 I can't think of a single 19-20 year old who's even heard of this book. You seem retarded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:29:48 2015 No.7184271 >>7184260 well memed

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:30:37 2015 No.7184275 >>7184271 It's not a meme, a joke or an exaggeration

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:31:12 2015 No.7184277

>>7184027
Change "day" to "date", then you will have a decent chart.

Also a way to spruce this up is to open up a google docs and post the chapter's text in the document. Then allow anons to put citations and footnotes on the side of the content, allowing us to read while having a /lit/ perceptive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:31:59 2015 No.7184279 >>7184264 I first read this book at age 17. I told all my friends to read it as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:33:57 2015 No.7184282 >>7184275 >he fell for a meme

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:35:20 2015 No.7184287 >>7184282 Keep repeating that It'll make the book start sucking Or you could just read it and stop falling for your own memes

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:40:15 2015 No.7184306 >>7184027 JESSICA LEAVES ROGER SHE IS FUCKING MARVY SLOTHROP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE V2'S MORE SPOILERS TO COME THE MORE I SEE THIS SHIT ON MY BOARD.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 22:54:34 2015 No.7184352 You can generally tell how good a book is by how nauseating its volunteer detractors are

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:06:51 2015 No.7184538 I'm reading this right after finishing Lot 49, and so far it's not as hard to follow as I expected. Got a few chuckles outta me, but nothing major. Pirate's condition was an interesting concept.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:10:55 2015 No.7184548 give me a link u dicks pdf preferab;y

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:15:06 2015 No.7184556 >>7184548 https://archive.org/details/ThomasPynchonGravitysRainbow

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:15:22 2015 No.7184557 >>7184306 You're retarded m8.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:16:56 2015 No.7184563 >>7184226 >>7184232 lesser readers

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 01:02:16 2015 No.7184638 >>7184306 Spoilers do not ruin a book like this. This isn't Infinite Jest. It's actually an experience to read rather than hormonal "oh gosh who will kill themselves next??"

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 01:05:29 2015 No.7184650
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>Once upon a time Slothrop cared. No kidding. He thinks he did, anyway. A lot of stuff prior to 1944 is getting blurry now. He can remember the first Blitz only as a long spell of good luck. Nothing that Luftwaffe dropped came near him. But this last summer they started in with those buzzbombs. You’d be walking on the street, in bed just dozing off suddenly here comes this farting sound over the rooftops—if it just keeps on, rising to a peak and passing over why that’s fine, then it’s somebody else’s worry . . . but if the engine cuts off, look out Jackson—it’s begun its dive, sloshing the fuel aft, away from the engine burner, and you’ve got 10 seconds to get under something. Well, it wasn’t really too bad. After a while you adjusted—found yourself making small bets, a shilling or two, with Tantivy Mucker-Maffick at the next desk, about where the next doodle would hit. . . .
>But then last September the rockets came. Them fucking rockets. You couldn’t adjust to the bastards. No way. For the first time, he was surprised to find that he was really scared. Began drinking heavier, sleeping less, chain-smoking, feeling in some way he’d been taken for a sucker. Christ, it wasn’t supposed to keep on like this. . . .

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 03:00:28 2015 No.7184853 Pick bananas.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 04:28:47 2015 No.7185002 What's up guys, I just marathoned the first sentence of Gravity's Rainbow >A screaming comes across the sky. What did he mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 05:40:27 2015 No.7185091 >>7185002 Dude, you have to read at least till it holds across the sky. Then come back and report.

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 05:49:45 2015 No.7185096

I read up to about page 23 in my 902 page edition. A few years ago I got up to 100 and something but gave up. I've previously read all of pynchon's books except against the day (also gave up on bleeding edge, inherent vice, against the day haven't yet read slow learner)

It's OK so far, surprisingly coherent. Pynchon must have known even at this early stage of his career that he can get away with anything as long as he puts on his "serious voice" every once in a while. I'm going to see this in the same way I see against the day - pointless ramblings

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 05:51:45 2015 No.7185098 >>7185096 God you're such a smug shithead. You will never get anything out of the arts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 05:56:45 2015 No.7185105 >>7185096 >also gave up on >I've read You haven't tbqhwu m8

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 06:07:27 2015 No.7185118

>>7185098

I feel bad standing on the sidelines while others do stuff and I'm just a voice saying stuff. But I am more than willing to get on my knees and shout about how i'm seeing genius and i'm not worthy etc.

Pynchon's jesus status and pomo faggotry has done much harm tbh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 08:49:28 2015 No.7185308 >>7185118 >jesus status You may've got your memes mixed up, lad

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 09:00:33 2015 No.7185325 >>7185308 N u def got yr lads mix'd up, meme

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 09:03:06 2015 No.7185329 >>7185098 American lit is worse than shit, what could he possibly get out of reading it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 11:32:39 2015 No.7185615 >>7184638 >The appeal of infinite jest is twists

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 12:18:39 2015 No.7185696 >>7185118 >jesus status >>7185615 Would you please quit trying to insidiously introduce your DFW everywhere?

Anonymous Fri Oct 2 13:13:54 2015 No.7185807
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>>7185096
> I've previously read all of pynchon's books
> except AtD
> also didn't read BE
> oh neither did I IV or SL
> GR? nein
> I've previously read all of pynchon's books

It's the small things that bring me back to 4chan

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 14:07:51 2015 No.7185932 >>7185096 I have also read all of Pynchon's books if you don't count the words in them

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 14:14:16 2015 No.7185950 >>7185696 by introducing do you mean replying to bait, then yes I agree I should stop.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 14:34:14 2015 No.7186026 >>7185615 Yeah pseudo intellectual twist that are disguised as dense plot devices.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 14:37:18 2015 No.7186041 >>7184027 I didn't get it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 23:28:04 2015 No.7187749 File: 229 KB, 250x327, 1435885533680.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I like it so far feels more melancholic than Col49, IV.but i think that is the point is the darkness

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