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OH NO NO NO NO NO NO

>> No.10519681

How can you hate on BE when Pynchman names the J*w?

>> No.10519686

the MBV of literature

>> No.10519687

>>10519681
The what?

>> No.10519741

I was actually planning to start this one. It would be my first book of his.

>> No.10519752

>>10519741
Why start with this?

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>>10519752
This was my second Pinecone after 49. I went for it because the setting sounded cool and decided to give the guy a chance, given his presrige, even though I thought his novella was a pile of garbage. I dropped BE after 70 pages and it will probably take me a long time before I pick up another of his books.

>> No.10519775

>>10519752
Why not? I heard it's about the Internet and 9/11 which are 2 subjects I'm interested in.

>> No.10519868

>450 pages
Post something under 200 pages for me to test Pynchon out. I'm not starting another one of these meme authors just to put the book down half way through.

>> No.10519926

>>10519868
Just read TCoL49, it's not hard to do a google search and see that that's the short one everybody reads

>> No.10520629

>>10519675

I tried to read this while I was working for a data centers in the 2013-15

>the audio performance was just awful.

>was already trying to get through gr

is it worth finishing?

>physical books have a longer back log than audio
>can not listen to that old hag read for 12 hours.

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>>10519675

>> No.10520669

inb4 someone loses their fucking mind over Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.10520724

its underrated, like all of Pynchon's novels under 900 pages

>> No.10520745

Im halfway through GR and enjoying so far. Was thinking to follow with bleeding edge since I liked the topics the book cover. What should I expect?

>> No.10520883

>>10519868
Don't be a pussy I started with M&D.

>> No.10522263

>>10520745
its good, read it, dont listen to the plebs

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