Is Pynchon actually a good author or is he just a meme like DFW?

[Anonymous No.9479134]

I read TCoL49 and it was one of the worst books I have ever read, but it has been a year and I am ready to give Pynch another shot by attempting Gravity's Rainbow. Am I wasting my time?

[Anonymous No.9479149]

if you felt that way about TCoL49 you probably will not like Gravity's Rainbow, which is like a beefier better version of the same sort of novel

>or is he just a meme like DFW?
you also seem like a meme man so i doubt you're smart enough to even enjoy Pynchon

[Anonymous No.9479155]

>>9479134
Every author that you don't enjoy is actually a meme and an elaborate ruse by the /lit/ board of 4chan to get you to read bad novels in stead of reading what is actually of high quality.

[Anonymous No.9479156]

>>9479134
If you didn't like Lot 49, you won't like Gravity's Rainbow. No need to discuss his "meme" status, which is irrelevant to whether or not he is a good writer (he is).

[Anonymous No.9479167]

>>9479134
He's actually a good author, but there are a lot of posters on this board that either ironically, or sincerely, rate him too high.

Also, someone post the Pynchon copypasta. You know the one. I don't have it saved, and it always makes me laugh (I need a laugh right now).

[Anonymous No.9479189]

>>9479167
You mean the rewritten FlyLo pasta?

I saw Thomas Pynchon at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw Tom trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[Anonymous No.9479194]

>>9479189
No, not that one. The Pynchmeister pasta

[Anonymous No.9479201]

>>9479194
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

[Anonymous No.9479205]

>>9479156
>If you didn't like Lot 49, you won't like Gravity's Rainbow
Absolute bullshit
>>9479201
This is better backwards.

[Anonymous No.9479450]

Happy 80'th Thomas!
Always in our thoughts

[Anonymous No.9479846]

>>9479201
This is the best thing to come out of /lit/

[Anonymous No.9479849]

>>9479134
I read this, didn't like it, and wrote him off ever since. Avoid IV at the very least

[Anonymous No.9479963]

>>9479134
Someone please post that eating-a-turd scene from GR so OP may judge for himself.

[Anonymous No.9479978]

>>9479849
Funny. He was trying to be pleb/casual with that one, and as such it's the only one he's written so far that's been made into a film

Mason & Dixon, Against The Day, Gravity's Rainbow are my favorite books of his, and are entirely different beasts from his short works.

[Anonymous No.9479984]

>>9479978
>90s REVIVAL

How was DFW so ahead of his time. This is basically how /fa/ dresses now.

[Anonymous No.9480066]

>>9479849
This is unironically better than Lot 49.

[Anonymous No.9480075]

I don't know my man, I pretty close to the ending of GR, there have been parts of it when the guy seems to be one of the most talented writers I've read, and other parts that are just, like, what the fuck are you trying to convey you fucking faggot? sometimes it feels like GR is not even literature... Idk, I think he is worth checkin out

[Anonymous No.9480315]

>>9479134
Thomas Pynchon has gone on record saying that he hated CoL49 because he just pumped it out for the publisher. He didn't get to stew on it. I recommend reading V. and then deciding if you want to read GR. I think V. does a better job of representing TP.