Jonboi

2y

WHAT THE F*** IS THIS

GEENOtwo

2y

Living in Sacramento and knowing my favorite director is filming here is just insane to think about

kogoyos

2y

just finished the book and I got no clue how the hell PTA is gonna make a film outta this lol

story is really all over the place in both settings and time. it's also hard to say who the main character is, which will make the casting decisions interesting. PTA is gonna have to take a lot of liberties with the storytelling

if people thought Inherent Vice was meandering just wait until Vineland

Pynchon just such a challenge to adapt, but I'm still hyped to see PTA give it a shot

kogoyos

2y

just finished the book and I got no clue how the hell PTA is gonna make a film outta this lol

story is really all over the place in both settings and time. it's also hard to say who the main character is, which will make the casting decisions interesting. PTA is gonna have to take a lot of liberties with the storytelling

if people thought Inherent Vice was meandering just wait until Vineland

Pynchon just such a challenge to adapt, but I'm still hyped to see PTA give it a shot

Oscar Winner

2y

If you’re able to, how would you describe the main plot of the book?

Ava

2y

Kinda wild to hear this cause it’s been described as PTA’s most accessible movie ever

kogoyos

2y

hippies/revolutionaries from the 60s come to grips with their failed movement as the war on d\*\*\*\* and personal vendettas from dirty cops come back to pursue them in the 1980s

Oscar Winner

2y

Oh damnnn and here I was thinking it was about so disability check dude in search of his missing wife

kogoyos

2y

just finished the book and I got no clue how the hell PTA is gonna make a film outta this lol

story is really all over the place in both settings and time. it's also hard to say who the main character is, which will make the casting decisions interesting. PTA is gonna have to take a lot of liberties with the storytelling

if people thought Inherent Vice was meandering just wait until Vineland

Pynchon just such a challenge to adapt, but I'm still hyped to see PTA give it a shot

GIO GIO

2y

I have the book but haven’t been motivated to give it a shot, worth reading?

kogoyos

2y

it is, but in the book that's only like the first quarter of the story, then it switches around to different characters and time frames.

so if Leo's playing the disability check dude (named Zoyd, which it looks like he is) he's either not gonna have a huge part in the story or PTA is gonna focus on him more than the book did

cause really there's Zoyd, Frenesí, DL, Prairie, and Brock that are all primary characters of equal importance with a whole lotta secondary characters too

can't wait for more details bout the casting

kogoyos

2y

I'd definitely recommend it but Pynchon is always pretty polarizing

if you haven't read him before, he has a lot of descriptive run on sentences, convoluted plots, and a quick pace that some people don't like. if you've read him before and liked his style I'm sure you'd like it

I liked Vineland a lot but it's challenging in its way, a book you want to pay close attention to as you read but also just enjoy it and be ok with not getting everything or at times feeling lost

GIO GIO

2y

Inherent Vice is one of my fav movies, I love the dialogue and read like half the book. Thought it was hilarious

Wanted to give Vineland a shot but I feel like what I liked about IV was more specific to that book than Pynchon in general

kogoyos

2y

it is, but in the book that's only like the first quarter of the story, then it switches around to different characters and time frames.

so if Leo's playing the disability check dude (named Zoyd, which it looks like he is) he's either not gonna have a huge part in the story or PTA is gonna focus on him more than the book did

cause really there's Zoyd, Frenesí, DL, Prairie, and Brock that are all primary characters of equal importance with a whole lotta secondary characters too

can't wait for more details bout the casting

GEENOtwo

2y

Living in Sacramento and knowing my favorite director is filming here is just insane to think about

Misfit

2y

too lazy to read the book, listening to the audiobook rn

Sir Swagalot

2y

any good?

Misfit

2y

pretty funny so far, waiting for the plot to get too convoluted for me to keep following

Sir Swagalot

2y

is it your first time reading pynchon? admittedly i haven’t checked any of his work out so idk what’s a good starting point into his bibliography besides Crying of Lot 49 (premise doesn’t interest me all that much tbh)