[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 103 KB, 392x574, Gravitys_rainbow_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
7909144 No.7909144 [Reply] [Original]

so I've read gravity's rainbow and mason and Dixon. they were pretty boring. what do you guys like so much about pynchon? should I read any of his other books?

>> No.7909149

>>7909144
Waste of time imo.

>> No.7909158

FFFFFAAAACKKKKKKKKK YOUUUHUFoughcoughcough Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you!!!!!!!'nnnnnnnmm

>> No.7909160

>>7909144
If you don't like his rambling prose with the knowledge that you'll never really understand all of his writing, then it's best time for you to move to a different author.

>> No.7909165

Maybe he's just not your thing

>> No.7909168

>>7909160
that applies to gravity's rainbow but not so much for M&D. although all anyone did in M&D was have random conversations.

>> No.7909207

I've read GR, and while I liked it I didn't like the excessive peregrinations and circumlocutions of Pynchon. I did enjoy what I could understand from the story, but I've read other authors since then.

>> No.7909228

I fucking love Gravity's Rainbow, V, and Lot 49, I don't so much care for his other work personally.

To me they are fun, lyrical, adventure stories, naive and loveable schmucks on metaphysical adventures, all the while the narrative voice switches between a snappy Fitzgerald impression, a flowing Faulkner, and a kind of pop art Leave-it-to-beaver ironic running commentary where the narrator is tripping over his words in disbelief at the action he's been given to narrate. Add a good dose of esotericism and hippie culture and makes for an all around fun time.

I think he's an author for boys and young men of a certain type, not the be all end all of literature, but about as much goofy fun as I'll probably ever have with the written word.

>> No.7909258

>>7909207
i wonder how long you waited to use the word peregrination

>> No.7909279

>>7909228
I like all of his books (V. and GR are the best though) for exactly these reasons. He's just really fun to read if you click with his sensibility.

>> No.7909321

how's vineland?

>> No.7909324

>>7909321
Starts out promising but sort of divebombs. Entertaining enough, but short of anything great.

>> No.7909339

>>7909321
It gets too caught up in flashbacks to the point where the main plot becomes tangential, then is just hastily and unceremoniously concluded in the last few pages. I'm pretty sure this was intentional given the setting and thematics of the book, but it doesn't really make for that great a read.

>> No.7909759
File: 83 KB, 590x960, NosignofV.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
7909759

V.

>> No.7909763

>>7909759
hate this cover
What the fuck does Benny know about V.? (and why isn't he pig bellied?)
Unless that's Stencil, then what the fuck is stencil doing hunting alligators with a shotgun?


Why don't cover artists ever read the fucking books?

>> No.7909767
File: 51 KB, 333x500, 12987106_1269176049776716_4872725108927235195_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
7909767

>>7909763
Your guess is as good as mine.

>> No.7909790

>>7909767
now there's a cover by someone trying too hard to show that they read it