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Anonymous Fri Aug 14 08:44:25 2020 No.16127179 [Reply] [Original]

What's his best book?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 08:45:53 2020 No.16127190 who's Hi?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 08:48:28 2020 No.16127201 >>16127179 Mason & Dixon

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 08:56:17 2020 No.16127257 >>16127201 I want to read another pynchon boom should i read Mason & Dixon or V. first?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 09:11:01 2020 No.16127351 >>16127257 V.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 09:11:49 2020 No.16127358 >>16127351 Thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 10:29:06 2020 No.16127821 >>16127179 Mason & Dixon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 11:20:05 2020 No.16128117 This is a Mason & Dixon board anon. Read it or weep.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 11:46:25 2020 No.16128285 >>16127190 buddy

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 11:47:44 2020 No.16128294 >>16127179 vineland

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 11:52:53 2020 No.16128325 File: 1.04 MB, 650x975, 1595473436628.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16127179 M & D

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 12:05:49 2020 No.16128400 >>16127179 The Twilight series.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 12:12:36 2020 No.16128437 File: 81 KB, 1059x681, 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16127201 >>16127821 >>16128117 >>16128325 From The Cambridge History of American Literature (Prose) 1940-1990.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 12:13:08 2020 No.16128442 >>16128400 I recently learned that Stephanie Meyer is a bit of a milf. Much more attractive than The Pynch I must say.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 12:15:55 2020 No.16128459 File: 841 KB, 1968x3000, CB73C6F2-9E05-45ED-8A14-F146392292EE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16128442 this bitch all gums

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 12:17:33 2020 No.16128468 File: 10 KB, 214x235, smugstirn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16128459 >implying you wouldn't

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 12:18:53 2020 No.16128474 >>16128459 I'd cums on dem gums >>16128437 While I enjoyed Sot-Weed Factor quite a lot, Mason & Dixon is a different beast. Is it just because they're both set in colonial America and are written by postmodern authors? Seems very surface level.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 13:03:33 2020 No.16128780 >>16128437 okay

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 13:04:54 2020 No.16128790 >>16128437 >Pynchon's brilliance degenerates into silliness and sentimentality lmao gottem

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 13:09:16 2020 No.16128812 Against the day

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 13:10:00 2020 No.16128817 >>16128812 why do you lie on the internet?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 13:21:10 2020 No.16128881 >>16128474 >>16128780 >>16128790 this particular article is written by woman. she even drops white male quite often. does anyone here reads these books?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 15:01:53 2020 No.16129654 GR > M&D > V. > AtD > CoL49 > IV >BE > cuckland

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 15:06:03 2020 No.16129696 >>16129654 Why don't you like Vineland anon?

Anonymous Fri Aug 14 16:07:14 2020 No.16130153

>>16129696
The lady ninjas subplot was pretty good but Frenesi and Zoyd were crap characters with no definition, same for the daughter, coming off of reading GR the prose was bland and at times outright sloppy and the theme of the downfall/tragedy of the 60s was far better articulated in IV

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 16:08:45 2020 No.16130162 >>16130153 >Reading Pynchon for the characters NGMI. Also there's more characterization in a single line of dialogue than there is in most novels

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 16:26:23 2020 No.16130264 >>16130162 Slothrop, Oedipa, Mason and Doc were fantastic characters, there wasn't a character worth a damn in Vineland and the surrounding narrative wasn't enough to support the book a la AtD

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 16:36:16 2020 No.16130314 >>16130264 sure

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 16:55:48 2020 No.16130441 I remember there was an anon who was obsessed with Pynchon and the occult references he made throughout his work. Does anyone have his posts?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 17:01:50 2020 No.16130478 >>16130314 Seethe more :>)

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 17:05:05 2020 No.16130506 >>16130478 rude desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 17:44:23 2020 No.16130778 >>16130478 whats your Pynchon ranking

Anonymous Fri Aug 14 21:45:02 2020 No.16132290

>>16127179
it has to be gravity's rainbow. HAS to be, right? and then after that there can be your subjective favorite.
but come on, it might not be the most pleasant of his to read, but gravity's rainbow is one of the few famous novels that really sincerely lives up to its reputation

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 01:59:02 2020 No.16133727

>>16127179
Best from a technical standpoint, Mason & Dixon.
Best from a most enjoyable standpoint, tie between V and Against the Day.
Best from a groundbreaking/influential standpoint, obviously Gravity's Rainbow.
Best from a marketability standpoint, Inherent Vice.

Best from my standpoint would be V or Gravity's Rainbow depending on my mood.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 02:01:58 2020 No.16133736 >>16127351 Fuck no.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 02:03:59 2020 No.16133743 >>16128812 Most boring? Sure

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 02:08:22 2020 No.16133760 >IV >V. >Vi...

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 07:48:57 2020 No.16134861 >>16133736 He asked what he should read next between those two. His post implied that he had read at least one Pynchon book though I don't know which one(s). I think it's better to have read V. before reading M&D (or GR for that matter)

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 08:13:35 2020 No.16134974 The one he wrote under a pseudonym

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 10:38:36 2020 No.16135773 >>16133760 >V >GR (V-2), ends in california >V(ineland) >IV (Roman numeral for 4) Haven't read vineland or iv yet but I think they are conected

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 10:43:53 2020 No.16135812 >>16128437 In Pynchon's case, the "change in taste" to history and nonfiction wasn't a change at all. He's been writing historical fiction since his first novel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 11:59:28 2020 No.16136277 >>16134974 Which one was that

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:01:10 2020 No.16136300 >>16135812 You're using a very broad definition of historical fiction

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:01:36 2020 No.16136303 >>16136277 Unqualified Reservations

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:03:25 2020 No.16136322

>>16136303
It's an ahistorical fiction about a group of native americans that don't qualify to make a reservation. They try many times over many generations to establish one but fail every time. It contains themes of shamanism, deep time, and carpetbaggery. Some of the names of the natives are really funny

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:57:29 2020 No.16136667 >>16130441 I'd be interested to see those posts if anyone's got em

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 13:04:13 2020 No.16136721 >>16128437 What an embarrassingly wrong take.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 14:42:11 2020 No.16137316 >>16130441 Pynchon is a spook

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 14:51:23 2020 No.16137385

>>16127179
Gravity's Rainbow reaches higher highs imo but Mason & Dixon is better throughout. I really love both of them and they're both completely different in tone and theme, it's amazing the guy wrote one masterpiece and then managed to do it again.

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 14:55:01 2020 No.16137403

>>16135812
To be fair, one got the feeling with his historical sections in V, at least some of them, were probably short stories rewritten to work within the context of the novel. One of the earliest historical chapters in V is a rework of his short story, Under the Rose in Slow Learner

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 14:56:23 2020 No.16137411 File: 78 KB, 1200x1057, external-content.duckduckgo.com.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16127201 Patrician. Pic not related.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 15:30:16 2020 No.16137642 >>16137385 only took him 30 years to write M&D

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 16:47:25 2020 No.16138201 >>16137385 His ability to sustain that faux-historical patois for like 700 pages is really amazing.

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