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slow time of the year around here. i need a challenging, rewarding, wild ride. is he my best option?

>> No.11678243
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11678243

Sure th-ii-ing baby! Read my seminal rollercoaster ride - Gravity's Rainbow!

>> No.11678317

>>11678149
This or JR by william gaddis

>> No.11678431

>challenging
Only if you consider references to 1950s/1960s popular culture and historical events "challenging"
>rewarding
You need to expect some really mediocre stuff if you want to feel rewarded by Mason & Dixon or Gravity's Rainbow. Most of his novels are chaotic messes with lots of characters and events, but very little introspection or actual character development.
>wild
You'll get this for certain with Pynch-man. Unfortunately, it's more like Congo Rainforest-kind of wild than American West-kind of wild.
If you want a challenging and rewarding wild ride, read something more along the lines of the Quran or Hesse's Siddhartha.

>> No.11678436

>>11678149
That's not Joyce, Faulkner, or Woolf

>> No.11678445

>>11678436
>reading a woman

you almost had it

>> No.11678469

>>11678149
>rewarding
nope

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>>11678431
>recommending the Quran as a "wild ride"

>> No.11678509

>>11678445
She's probably the best writer to ever write under such a burden. Check her out sometime.

>> No.11678690

>>11678445
>Ignoring one of the greatest writers of the 20th century because she had a vagina

bummer dude

>> No.11678715

>>11678431
Theres a lot more than just references to 50s and 60s pop culture to deal with, Gravity's Rainbow has a lot of math stuff that someone with no Calculus would at the very least find super boring if not unintelligible. The prose is also pretty undeniably tough at times, as is keeping the whole narrative straight.

Also I think Slothrop and Mexico are really well developed characters full of emotion and human insight desu

>> No.11679076

>>11678431
>character development
I wish this cringy YA meme would die already. People don't really change.

>> No.11679516

>>11678431
>Siddhartha

What? I like the book but I mean, what?

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>>11678431
>Most of his novels are chaotic messes with lots of characters and events, but very little introspection or actual character development.

uh oh, somebody didn't get it

>> No.11679684

“… I have bought myself time… have begun to use this up… the amount which is yours… is fit to the likes of you’s… the people that bare no such consequences of our sort… walking on no toes… preparing my stab into the back… the tool guided by another’s hand… so I do not have to touch it… when I see it… on photographs… imagined there… for his prayer… for that other life… for the other sensory system you have… for that intoxicated you… lost in all beauty… one falls for none of it in particular… it is all the same to one… alright for a job… it is good at it. Bad at the tasks…
… given by that world it is interacting with things within… is everything which is real to it… which came to its side… mutually on an issue… our expression of no opinion… about this knowledge we have… this lack of extra study we have… keeping us from higher praise… praise that we will earn from it… earn when so improved at it… a thing you want to increase in value… which may add value to yourself… and make you valuable to us all. When you have gotten that as well…
… that morphs to you… and yet it is you… it is neither, paradoxically… yet is more than one… subtracted back down… to know one’s journeying..."

https://christianjaroschdialogues.com/