Pomo Thread

[Anonymous No.12639073]

mods are awake, post post-modernism. My two editions of TCoL49 are better than yours. Anyone have the original covers for JR or Gravity's Rainbow?

[Anonymous No.12639082]

>>12639073
that shit needs 2666

[Anonymous No.12639091]

needs more Hawkes

[Anonymous No.12639097]

>>12639082
I have it but haven't read it
>>12639091
I don't have any hawkes.

[Anonymous No.12639123]

>>12639073
Hey OP, can you tell me the exact size (length and width) of The Recognitions? Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.12639131]

>>12639097
fuck you then

[Anonymous No.12639132]

>>12639123
6W×9L×2.1deep/thick in inches 2.8lbs/1.3kg

[Anonymous No.12639136]

>>12639123
it's 6"x9" and ~2.5" thick

[Anonymous No.12639138]

>>12639123
6W×9L×2.1deep/thick in inches, 15.25Wx22.85L×5.33deep/thick in centimeters. 2.8lbs/1.3kg

[Anonymous No.12639144]

i have some pretty rare hardcovers (gravitys rainbow 1st edition and women and men) gonna try and track down V. next

[Anonymous No.12639148]

Where to start with hawkes and is he actually good?

[Anonymous No.12639149]

>>12639073

>Brags about the TCOL49 versions
>Has the cancer version of GR

Nice one OP. But joking aside nice PoMo collection.

[Anonymous No.12639154]

Based reddit OP

[Anonymous No.12639156]

>>12639144
Post them or STFU faggot

[Anonymous No.12639160]

>>12639073
Why no Eco?

[Anonymous No.12639161]

>>12639073
>My two editions of TCoL49 are better than yours.
But anon, my edition of V. is superior to yours. My small collection of pomo lit since really I started reading again (as in since high school) only since December. I've been wanting to get in DeLillo's works, how is he? I was thinking White Noise first?

[Anonymous No.12639162]

>>12639156
i was going to until you said mean words

[Anonymous No.12639174]

>>12639149
I like that version. This is the first copy I had which I've given away. I've given away three copies of TCoL49 over the past ~6 years too including both of these covers. I'm at least going to hang onto the hands on paper on this time.

[Anonymous No.12639179]

>>12639162
No him but you really have to deliver or be mocked after alleging these things man. I'm interested

[Anonymous No.12639185]

>>12639132
>>12639136
>>12639138
I love when Americans are kind and generous with me

[Anonymous No.12639198]

>>12639161
>Rings of Saturn
>postmodern
Good joke.

[Anonymous No.12639202]

>>12639198
Is it not? I've seen it in various pomo charts, so I assumed it is.

[Anonymous No.12639209]

>>12639179
fair enough. these are just some of my favorites. i've got the rest of pynchons stuff in paperback

[Anonymous No.12639213]

>>12639209
a few more without the dust jackets. the price you pay for being lazy and shopping on ebay

[Anonymous No.12639216]

>>12639202
Nothing about is postmodern. It is more modernist than anything. The only reason the “intellectuals” on here include it in a pomo chart is because it was published in the 1990’s and is an amazing book. Being published post WWII doesn’t inherently make a book pomo.

[Anonymous No.12639224]

House of Leaves seems like a huge piece of bullshit to me

[Anonymous No.12639261]

>>12639160
pomo for airport crowd.

[Anonymous No.12639267]

>>12639073
Wait, that’s all the postmodern books you own??

[Anonymous No.12639268]

>>12639209
>>12639213
Very cool. How is women and men? I haven't read any john barth either.

[Anonymous No.12639283]

>>12639268
Women and Men gets really good around page ~700

[Anonymous No.12639285]

>>12639224
Half of its good. The part about johnny or whoever you can just ignore after the tattoo shop. The parts about the house are great.

[Anonymous No.12639288]

>>12639268
i've got a pretty tremendous backlog so i've yet to get to women and men. but i read the floating opera and end of the road by Barth and i thought they were both really good. especially the floating opera, its sort of reminded me of Celine but without quite that same level of bitterness

[Anonymous No.12639449]

>>12639283
So does the first 699 pages kind of suck or what? Said so

[Anonymous No.12639617]

Which book do I read for bigger cummies?

[Anonymous No.12639629]

>>12639224
House of Leaves is kino dawg.

[Anonymous No.12639836]

Thank you Reddit, very cool!

[Anonymous No.12639841]

>>12639288
>have women and men
>haven't read it for pseud points yet
wtf

[Anonymous No.12639848]

>>12639836
>t. shelflet

[Anonymous No.12639853]

>>12639848
Fuck you, man, I literally do not have a shelf because quality ones are uncommon and everything is Walmart IKEA tier cardboard shit

[Anonymous No.12639879]

>>12639848
>t. zoomer that buys physical media and fawns over their covers

[Anonymous No.12639883]

>>12639853
craigslist

[Anonymous No.12639938]

>>12639879
>t. shelflet

[Anonymous No.12639946]

>>12639938
>t. cunt

[Anonymous No.12639973]

>>12639946
>cunt
What an embarrassing epithet. Essentially admitting you're some emasculated eurostarve or roo; or even worse, a tryhard domesticated american aping fairy tale peasant talk

[Anonymous No.12639990]

>>12639973
Yikes...

[Anonymous No.12639994]

>>12639990
>9990
cringe

[Anonymous No.12640000]

>>12639994
Reroll

[Anonymous No.12640006]

>>12639994
>American posts a picture of a pig
You don't have any mirrors in your flat do you?

[Anonymous No.12640030]

>>12640006

[Anonymous No.12640051]

>>12640030

[Anonymous No.12640060]

>>12640051
>implying any real person would hold both of those opinions simultaneously
Is this real or an edit lmao

[Anonymous No.12640087]

hey bros

[Anonymous No.12640117]

>>12640087
Highly based. I didn't include my mcelroy now that I see this but I have cannonball and smuggler's bible. I have been meaning to get a public burning. Vollman used to come up on /lit/ sometimes but I don't really know a thing about him.

[Anonymous No.12640135]

>>12640060
Truly the Untermensch my bubby warned me about.

[Anonymous No.12640142]

>>12639994
wow that's a blast from the past

[Anonymous No.12640147]

>>12640135
So was it not an edit then? That's pretty sad is so

[Anonymous No.12640149]

>>12640117
both come highly recommended

[Anonymous No.12640156]

>>12640147
>Murricans in 2020: read book; get shot

[Anonymous No.12640196]

>>12640156
>he's nogunz
cringe

[Anonymous No.12640214]

>>12640196
>Your kids all wear bulletproof backpacks
Zimbabwe

[Anonymous No.12640234]

>>12640214
>He doesn't get into a fire fight every other tuesday
Lmao why have yurops gone so soft

[Anonymous No.12640246]

>>12640234
Dont forget to take your prozac, 56%

[Anonymous No.12640252]

>>12640214
THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

[Anonymous No.12640290]

>>12640149
Where2start with vollman?

[Anonymous No.12640321]

[Anonymous No.12640344]

>>12640321
a fine collection, my friend

>>12640290
you bright & risen angels if you want pynchon-y vollmann, europe central if you want a good representation of his work (one of his best, for sure), the Rifles or the Ice-Shirt if you want to get into his 7 dreams series. you really can't go wrong.

[Anonymous No.12640352]

>>12639261
>No Latin passages allowed
Sad!

[Anonymous No.12640354]

>>12640344
Is the dream series not sequential?

[Anonymous No.12640371]

>>12640354
It's a sequential history, but the stories within are not

[Anonymous No.12640384]

>>12640371
So I can read them in any order?

[Anonymous No.12640483]

>>12639449
The first 700 have brilliant passages interspersed every 50-80 pages or so, but there are some dull moments. It’s just around 700 it gets really good because that’s when all these separate threads McElroy has been weaving come together.

[Anonymous No.12640906]

>>12640483
Is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.12640967]

>>12639174
>I've given away three copies of TCoL49 over the past ~6 years too including both of these covers.
are you going to mention this in EVERY lot 49-related thread?

[Anonymous No.12641645]

>>12639073
Have you read at least a quarter of those

[Anonymous No.12641848]

>>12639261
Pleb opinion

[Anonymous No.12641891]

Is catch 22 pomo? What books, beyond the Anglosphere, do you regard as postmodern?

[Anonymous No.12641900]

[Anonymous No.12641914]

>>12641891
Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.12641917]

House of leaves is an exasperated parody of post-modernism. It's a comfy and fun read, but the mock-academic tones of Zampanò and the endless digressions of Truant get painfully repetitive fast. I don't really feel like parsing the whole thing in search of coded messages and steganographied hints at the true meaning of life, like the guys on the danielewsky forum did. If the existence of several layers of unreliable narration convey something, it is that nothing in there means anything whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.12642061]

>>12641917
>If the existence of several layers of unreliable narration convey something, it is that nothing in there means anything whatsoever.
And that is the definitive degeneration and death of Literature.

[Anonymous No.12642175]

>>12642061
>Literature
cringe capitalization

[Anonymous No.12642272]

>>12641900
What's this?
>>12641917
Only the part about the house is good

[Anonymous No.12642288]

>>12642272
>What's this?
Tristram Shandy

[Anonymous No.12642303]

>>12642272
>Not recognizing Tristram Shandy

[Anonymous No.12642322]

Can't make a picture right now, but:

A Clockwork Orange
Cat's Cradle
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
If on a winter's night a traveler
House of Leaves

[Anonymous No.12642328]

>>12642175
cringe post

[Anonymous No.12642622]

>>12642303
I haven't read it yet because the free copy I got is falling apart

[Anonymous No.12642830]

how cute and predictable that a discussion about pomo tomes turns into a stack thread and >muh covers

[Anonymous No.12642881]

>>12642830
OP sets the tone

[Anonymous No.12643336]

>>12642830
>some retarded faggot with nothing to contribute in any capacity decides to bitch
I have 3 threads in the catalog close to or well over 100 posts why don't you cry some more bitch nibba

[Anonymous No.12643488]

>>12643336
>nothing to contribute
lol yeah hang on i'll go take a picture of my pynchon books

[Anonymous No.12643520]

That's nice you asshurt faggot. I have vollman and coover on the way thanks to this thread.

[Anonymous No.12643787]

>>12639073
how many of those have you read?

[Anonymous No.12643970]

here is my pomo, currently reading The Tunnel.
Foucault's pendulum open because its cover is blank.
third worlder so imported american pomo are fucking expensive so gotta buy them slowly, otherwise I'd have some Coover, barthelme, barth...
The Reconigtions is on the way though.
Of those, haven't read M&D since it arrived with The Tunnel, and 2666

[Anonymous No.12644045]

>>12641645
>>12643787
lmao I forgot how insecure this board is xDDD

[Anonymous No.12644068]

tryhard white males: the thread

[Anonymous No.12644073]

>>12644068
>people share literature they enjoy in a literature board: the thread

[Anonymous No.12644087]

>>12639148

I’ve only read The Frog. It was very interesting. It has some aspects of pastiche, by not in a turbo way like Gravity’s Rainbow. The two major turns in the narrative are fairly quirky. I enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.12644110]

>>12639216
Nah, I think it’s postmodern. The combination of image and text and its aleatory structure make it so. Actually, I forgot about Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which is modernist and images plus text as well. I still think it’s postmodern because it’s like a blog before blogs were a big thing.

[Anonymous No.12644126]

>>12644068
well i mean who else is going to read a thousand page book for fun besides white people

[Anonymous No.12644156]

Is "American Psycho" considered post-modern lit? Or is it a social critique of modernity? How strict is the label outside of philosophical works?

[Anonymous No.12644218]

>>12640000
checked

[Anonymous No.12644523]

>>12639073
do you alternate versions for each page, or stick to one, analyzing the effects of its cover on the text

[Anonymous No.12645999]

>>12643970
your V and GR are cancer, but that 2666 is tasteful, never seen that cover

[Anonymous No.12646005]

>>12639148
The Lime Twig

[Anonymous No.12646006]

Why should a non-American care about these non-entities? I'm dead serious.

[Anonymous No.12646017]

when will this be recognized as peak delillo

[Anonymous No.12646018]

>>12644523
I actually alternate each word of TCoL49 between volumes and ruminate on how each cover reflects each word while doing so.

[Anonymous No.12647296]

>>12639148
Lime twig and beetle leg are goat

[Anonymous No.12647310]

>>12646017
cause it isn't Mao II

[Anonymous No.12648260]

>>12647310
>when?
>"cause..."

[Anonymous No.12649652]

>>12644110
I’m sorry but you have no concept of what is modernist and postmodernist.

[Anonymous No.12650405]

bump

[Anonymous No.12650439]

Spring break is on the horizon and that means I may finally have time to start on a doorstopper. Which one of the following?
>The Recognitions
>Underworld
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Against the Day
In regards to my previous experience of the above authors, I've never read Gaddis, disliked DeLillo's White Noise, and absolutely loved Lot 49 and Bleeding Edge but thought Vineland was just okay.

[Anonymous No.12650450]

Read Tommy before Gaddis so when you get around to the recognitions and JR you can see what an immature poopoo peepee seth macfarlane pynch is (I still like him).

[Anonymous No.12650471]

>>12647310
Lmao Mao II is his worst book.

[Anonymous No.12650477]

>>12650439
I read Against the Day last summer, and it was really good, definitely the heaviest book I have ever read.

[Anonymous No.12651053]

>>12639073
>No mumbo jumbo by Ishmael Reed
What are you, a Nazi?

[Anonymous No.12651074]

>>12639073
>reading Cortázar in English

[Anonymous No.12651113]

>>12640087
fuck me, is men and women really bigger than the recognitions and jr?

[Anonymous No.12651141]

>>12651113
on goodreads that particular edition of women and man has more than 1200 pages. On other edition it has 1190

[Anonymous No.12651174]

>>12645999
as I said, third worlder, the 'where is waldo' editions were expensive enough, good looking editions were way too expensive. Since the text is the same, I don't really care. And that 2666 cover is a brazilian edition so if you see that you can know it is some brazilian poster

[Anonymous No.12652167]

reminder this is the coolest IJ cover

[Anonymous No.12652243]

>>12652167
hell no.
>hard cover with the clouds = paperback with acid green letters >> the one with the eye inside the orange television > the one with the clouds and black, white and orange letters > the one you posted

[Anonymous No.12652250]

>>12652243
>>12652167
here.
1 = 3 > 8 > 2 > 4

[Anonymous No.12652479]

>>12652250
A paperback copy of 4 was what I had when I first read IJ when I was like 16. The one i'm reading now is 8
rose-tinted glasses are a hell of thing, i guess.

[Anonymous No.12652527]

>>12652479
I don't see the point in teenagers reading books that deal with really complicated life situations desu. You're retarded until like 25

[Anonymous No.12652587]

>>12652527
t. 27 year old

[Anonymous No.12652749]

Now delete this thread

[Anonymous No.12652824]

>>12639073
>>12640087
>>12650450
Hey is JR really tough? I heard about it and it sounds fun. Haven’t read Gaddis before but I am a big Barth fan

[Anonymous No.12652865]

>>12652527
you can almost smell the suburbs off this post

[Anonymous No.12652877]

>>12652527
i dunno i read infinite jest at age 17 or 18 and i was able to comprehend it just fine. now gravitys rainbow or the recognitions on the other hand i think may have gone a bit over my head.

[Anonymous No.12652879]

>>12639073
>Anyone have the original covers for JR or Gravity's Rainbow?

[Anonymous No.12652913]

>>12652824
I think JR is relatively easy. Gaddis voices his characters really well.

[Anonymous No.12652928]

>>12652879
I do, I’ll post it when I get home

[Anonymous No.12652952]

>>12644126

I guess you haven’t read all those opinion polls of favourite books. African Americans often cite Moby Dick as among their favourites.

[Anonymous No.12652957]

>>12646006

Boy you sure don’t have an axe to grind, do you?

[Anonymous No.12652964]

>>12649652
Lol. Whatever, mang. Why don’t you go jerk off to some McHale or Jameson.

[Anonymous No.12653108]

>>12652913
Thanks anon, I was still planning on reading it I just wanted another opinion. How would you rate the book? Just in terms of your enjoyment?

[Anonymous No.12653191]

>>12652952
unironically based

[Anonymous No.12653195]

>>12652952
so that's why they like fat white bitches