/lit/ - Literature

>>22323431
>violent and grotesque
>he hasn't read pynchon
yawn

Gravity's Rainbow > V > Crying of Lot 49 > Inherent Vice > Bleeding Edge

That's all I've read so far but I keep re-reading them over and over I can't stop they're so good.

>>20602474
>Where does Thomas Pynchon live?

New York City. The article in the New York Times (or whatever it was) is correct. Mr. Pynchon lives in New York City and has lived there (apparently) since sometime in 1990 or 91. I' ve also heard that he is married to his agent. So if you want to find him... just go to where his agent works, follow her when she leaves work, and knock on the apartment door. Maybe he'll answer. Or maybe you can look up her phone number and call him up. "Hey dude, I love that Gravity's Rainbow book."

>>20596052
>not familiar with pynchonics
you must be new here

>>20082080

>>18725756
I know Roth well. You should read more. And pay attention. Clearly you missed something =)

>>18725780
Anyone well-read puts them in the same grouping.

>>18725840
>>18725827
>>18725819
>>18725808
>>18725798
>>18725795
Calling Roth bad has triggered some sort of meltdown. This rules.

Still not a single display of why Roth's works aren't the trash it's treated as =^)

>>15882346
Hello, I've actually now read this mess. It's a diary with commentary and it is shockingly shockingly bad.

If it's a parody, the beginning isn't very funny or bizarre, but oh boy does it pick up as it goes on.

There are some strange moments such as:

>>One moment, everyone might trust a company, and the next moment, the company could be seen as leprous simply because of some regulatory violation that no one knew of. Volkswagen, for example, went from being admired for making great cars to being crooks who lied to every government in order to make their diesel engines look better performing than they really were.

...where the author really shines in his ignorance. "In my 20s, I had a career in economics"—but doesn't know what happened with Volkswagen?

From biographical details, the author is about 32 years old. And this is what his mind has to offer us:

>>The emotions were real, and in the professional competitive scene the money was real too; many pros made a living out of playing the game.

>>I had quit the game by 2016 because I had gotten quite good at it. And more than playing the game, what I had always wanted out of it was some type of intellectual, or mental, growth. I had learned much about the psychology of the warrior while playing it, and I had also understood a key part of the masculine thinker, which was that the masculine thinker had to simplify his thoughts. This game "League of Legends" was perhaps the most useful game I had ever played because it was more than entertainment...

#10

>yfw you realized Pynchon and King are the same person

>yfw you realize King and Pynchon are the same person

Which Stephen King short story collection should I get?

Eleven, actually.

>>7156145
DUDE FUNNY NAMES AND A CONVOLUTED PLOT THAT MAY OR MAY NOT INVOLVE A GRAND CONSPIRACY AND A SHADOWY ORGANIZATION LMAO

>yfw you realized Pynchon and King are the same person