Another Perfect Day
I've only read Inherent Vice, because my library is lame and that's all they have.
I plan on reading Gravity's Rainbow next.
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Gravity's Rainbow is not only my favorite Pynchon work, but my favorite work by anyone.
V. is pretty impressive too, as is Lot 49 on a smaller scale. I found Against the Day disappointing although I'm not sure why. Haven't tackled his other books yet.
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I'm reading Inherent Vice at the moment and its...interesting. Not sure I'm cut out to be a Pynchon reader and appreciater.
"You want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed." - Emily Wong.
Another Perfect Day
I liked Inherent Vice a whole lot, but I felt like it went out of its way to resolve some things near the end. I don't know how it would stack up to his other books though, cause see above.
We should start a page on it.
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That seems rather uncharacteristic of Pynchon.
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Well, things aren't so much "resolved" as "ended." They kinda break off and end in their own ways (without answering the questions they raised, which I felt fit the theme), but that drags the book out past the end of the actual plot.
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So sorta like Ending Fatigue. That's more understandable.
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Yeah, he has a thing about long endings - end of gravity's rainbow felt a bit drawn out, but I really liked how he wrote the ending Slothrop's conciousness splinters and disintergrates (spoilered for those yet to read it) it's odd and really post-modern!
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The last episodes of GR are my favorites. I love how it just skips around to all these strange and hallucinatory scenes. Sometimes I wish I could write a whole book like that.
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I recently grabbed The Crying of Lot 49, and plan on getting Gravity's Rainbow next (this likely would have been first if it had been on the shelf when I was looking). I've deliberately avoided any knowledge of the plot in advance, other than the generic Pynchon style, and a marginal note someone wrote in the side of another book, in reference to a toilet.
Anyone read Mason and Dixon? Just bought it and wondering...
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Hate to say it, but I've always been scared off by the 18th-century style of Mason & Dixon. Someday, perhaps...
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Launched Inherent Vice. Chip in with some tropes people.
"You want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed." - Emily Wong.
I recently restarted Gravity's Rainbow after an initial attempt that left me lost and confused. I've just finished part 2, and I'm not having much trouble following the plot this time around, it helps to be previously acquainted with the book. I'm not entirely sure what the point of the novel is yet, but I'm fucking loving the bizarre trip its taking me on.
Finished The Crying of Lot 49. Have an opinion on who the anonymous bidder might have been, may be wrong, may change my mind upon rereading.
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...may I ask what your guess is?
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Yes you can, and my response is sent by private messenger.
Read V again today... Damn good but I still think Gravity's Rainbow is better. I want to know how he comes up with all his songs and rhymes, they certainly add yet another level to his writing (as if there weren't enough already!).
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I like the rocket limericks in GR the best.
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I was reading GR on the bus and someone read a rocket limerick over my shoulder. I hate people reading over my shoulder, so I turned to death stare and the guy had gone bright red and was staring out of the window... Bringing back personal memories, perhaps?!
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That's pretty funny.
There's one song later in the book which supposedly helped inspire Smells Like Teen Spirit. Never would've guessed it.
edited 18th Feb '12 6:42:09 PM by ImipolexG
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I'm about 200 pages into Vineland and I haven't had this much trouble with a book since I was learning how to read.
Welcome to a 50 page flashback-within-flashback-within-perspective switch-within-perspective switch. An entire chapter was just a total slog to read through. There were lots of lines, scenarios, and images that I liked...but the whole thing deviates from itself, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure if I'm reading the same book any more.
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Hmm...Gravity's Rainbow is like that pretty much all the way through.
Apparently Pynchon once told a friend, "why should things be easy to understand?" That's his modus operandi, it seems.
edited 25th Feb '12 6:17:09 PM by ImipolexG
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Couldn't see/find one, so I thought I'd create the thread for the lovers of Thomas Pynchon and his works! What's your favourite of his works? Personally, I like Gravity's Rainbow most with V as a close second...
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