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Anonymous Mon May 2 19:04:57 2016 No.7991720 [Reply] [Original]

Have you actually read the entire meme trilogy, /lit/?

Did you like it?

Which one stood out to you the most?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 19:05:44 2016 No.7991725 start with the greeks

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 19:06:30 2016 No.7991728 >>7991720 GR and Ulysses are masterpieces. IJ is great but doesn't reach sublime status as the others do.

Anonymous Mon May 2 19:09:03 2016 No.7991733

>Have you actually read the entire meme trilogy, /lit/?
yes, though not with any intention of reading the 'meme trilogy', they are just three important books in english lit
>Did you like it?
yes, all very worthwhile.
Which one stood out to you the most?
gravity's rainbow is a personal favorite, ulysses is a high standard of what literature can be. infinite jest is good contemporary americna lit, but easily the worst of the three, if i had to pick one. well rounded and good but not a standout work intellectually, aesthetically, or technically

Anonymous Mon May 2 19:10:30 2016 No.7991738

I liked Jest and Ulysses pretty much equally. Very well rounded works.

Gravity's Rainbow was completely incoherent and generally a waste of time. It doesn't have any value aside from the novelty you get from reading such a goddamned ridiculous book. I don't know why it's so often held to the same regard as the other two books.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 19:12:48 2016 No.7991745 >>7991738 dont listen to this faggot gr is a masterpiece, though obviously not for everyone it's probably the most intellectually profound of the three books and has a very unique pop-art style it's almost like a longform novelized crumb comic

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 19:15:21 2016 No.7991754 I thought half of gr was meh. Ulysses was boring and infinite jest was funny and depressing. you get more out of non meme books. stay away from the memes unless you've read lots of books.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 19:16:10 2016 No.7991758 >>7991738 That's how I felt as well. Seconded on the incoherence, but I don't enjoy Pinecone's writing as a whole.

Anonymous Mon May 2 19:31:18 2016 No.7991795

IJ was good. Haven't read Ulysses.

I was halfway through GR about a year ago. What made me put it down, and this may seem a bit pitiful, was a post I saw on here. In a bookshelf thread someone replied to one anon's bookshelf (which was 90% postmodern memes) something to the effect of "how are you supposed to appreciate the subversion of a novel [regarding anon's copy of GR] if you've never even read one." That really got to me because that anon's bookshelf had a lot in common with mine. I'll come back to GR eventually. And this isn't even a case of me thinking I need to start with the Greeks, I just think I need to mature a little, and I'm also gonna familiarize myself a bit with Pynchon first.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 20:12:57 2016 No.7991951 >>7991733 this

Anonymous Mon May 2 21:14:21 2016 No.7992130

There's a reason it's called the "meme" trilogy and not the "essential" trilogy. People who have never read them think they are safe in claiming that they are each the apex of literature because of how stupidly long and difficult. The uninitiated have every reason to think this is correct, whereas people who actually read know that these books really are nothing special.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:19:09 2016 No.7992146 >>7992130 you're new and you're wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:27:09 2016 No.7992174 File: 147 KB, 500x500, 1458349154408.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dude I'm fucking sorry but pinchin or pinecone? piekin? piecon? all of the above?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:28:06 2016 No.7992177 >>7992146 >hurrrr ur new xDDD You sure proved me wrong there buddy

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:28:16 2016 No.7992178 >>7992174 not bothering to make a new thread or search for the current QTDDTOT I need answers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:29:44 2016 No.7992187 >>7992177 holy FUCK you are new

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:32:30 2016 No.7992200 >>7992187 No, I'm really not.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:33:28 2016 No.7992203 >>7991720 Gravity's Rainbow stood out the most to me. Ulysses was great, but I didn't really like IJ. GR just felt right to me, idk how to explain it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:35:29 2016 No.7992215 >>7992200 well done typing with perfect grammar, everyone thinks you're cool everything i'm cool books

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:39:05 2016 No.7992232 >>7992174 Pinch-ON! Apply directly to the forehead!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:43:29 2016 No.7992257 >>7992174 It's Pinecone bruh, you know, like the fruit.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 21:58:02 2016 No.7992316 >>7992174 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYXWfGt7DY This is him saying it himself

>>	deaf chords, dead ends Mon May 2 22:02:22 2016 No.7992329 >>7991738 you don't know a goddamned thing

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 23:29:24 2016 No.7992643 >>7992329 Neither do you, quite clearly.

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