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Anonymous Sat Apr 30 06:25:58 2016 No.7981993 [Reply] [Original]

let's get this out of the way once and for all

http://www.strawpoll.me/10088715

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 06:30:49 2016 No.7982000 Crying is the shorter and easier (in my opinion also better) book. The only reason you'd read V first is because it is his first novel and you want to "see his genius unfold" through the rest of his books or some windbag shit like that.

Anonymous Sat Apr 30 06:35:17 2016 No.7982006

>>7981993

>Starting with V.

V. is too disjointed and complicated for a new person to Pynchon, I recommend reading a lot of his other works before it though since you really need to be used to his style and comedy, Crying Lot is great, easier to comprehend and only really gets any flack because of how short it is. I enjoyed how ambient it was though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 06:37:56 2016 No.7982013 >>7982006 you wouldn't recommend GR before V, would you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 07:07:14 2016 No.7982049 I'd recommend starting with Crying and then if you enjoyed that read V., followed by Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon, and then whatever else by him you want to read

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 07:09:08 2016 No.7982055 >>7981993 where is the 'none' option?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 07:10:25 2016 No.7982057 >>7982055 not voting

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 07:11:00 2016 No.7982059 >>7982055 I thought of doing that but I didn't want this to become another dumb joke

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 07:12:58 2016 No.7982062 >>7982059 pynchon is already a dumb joke

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 07:14:16 2016 No.7982064 >>7982062 :^)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 19:40:09 2016 No.7983696 lets do it for other authors 2 http://www.strawpoll.me/10095493

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 19:43:09 2016 No.7983709 http://www.strawpoll.me/10095508

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 19:45:54 2016 No.7983719 >>7983709 what the fuck is the end of faith?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 19:46:29 2016 No.7983725 >>7983719 don't be silly

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 19:47:12 2016 No.7983727 I recommend everybody to just go balls out and slug their way through Gravity's Rainbow first. It's like a trial by fire sort of thing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 19:49:54 2016 No.7983735 V is better than 49, but if you started with V youd probably not have a clue what on earth was happening so 49 is better to begin with

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 30 20:00:24 2016 No.7983768 >>7983735 Counterpoint, the origin of Yoyodyne is in V. reoccurring characters is the reason you read pynch in order

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 06:25:05 2016 No.7985305 http://www.strawpoll.me/10098623

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 16:39:13 2016 No.7986945 >>7983696 >Absalom leading the poll, Light in August 3rd Nice memes

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