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Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:32:05 2015 No.7287964 [Reply] [Original]

Is Crying of Lot 49 considered Pinecone Lite? Read it a few months ago and Gravity's Rainbow is in the mail, and wondering what I'm getting myself into.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:34:49 2015 No.7287977 >>7287964 Kinda. It's old-school Pinecone but he did acknowledge that it was poorly written by his standards and basically a potboiler.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:36:49 2015 No.7287983 lot 49 is like a dumb supermodel without make up. She looks great but she's so fucking deluded she only thinks she looks good with ten inches of horrific skin ruining obscurantist chemicals on her face.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:46:02 2015 No.7288027 Its early pinecone. It has his energy but does not measure up to his later writing at all. better than his early short stories which are sometimes genuinely bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:46:25 2015 No.7288029 >>7287983 Is GR makeupless in comparison?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:50:55 2015 No.7288058 >>7287964 It's a good starter. It isn't as bad as he makes it out to be in Slow Learner. I mean, any of us here would be fucking honored to have been able to write it. But even "minor" Pinecone is still fun

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:51:00 2015 No.7288060 >>7288027 Hear hear. Especially Mortality and Mercy in Vienna. I can see why he was too ashamed to have it in Slow Learner.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:56:09 2015 No.7288089 I read GR first for a class, and it's probably my favorite novel still. I read Crying after and was very disappointed... felt just like slightly better Vonnegut or something. IMO they are world's apart, though V is somewhere in between

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 26 23:59:35 2015 No.7288112 >>7288027 Gravity's Rainbow is just as bad but people think it's a masterpiece because it's longer.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 27 00:08:37 2015 No.7288168 >>7288112 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GRAVITY'S RAINBOW IS A MASTERPIECE, EVERY SENTENCE IS GENIUS, THE BLURB ALONE IS BETTER THAN INFINITE JEST, GO FUCK YOURSELF, I BET YOU DIDN'T EVEN READ THE GREEKS

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