"Japan sterilisation law victims included nine-year-olds" bbc.com/news/world-asia-65958119

yeah I was shocked also, so f***ed

Thank you..fuck this

the fact doctors there would just sterilize you if they felt like it and you would think you just got a vax there for years... Gotta give it to the antivaxers for once that's scary as hell

And you too.

Just finished Vineland. What a sweet, funny, captivating story. Maybe my favorite Pynchon now.

When the family all comes together at the end it's like The Royal Tenenbaums.
How the war on d**** fractures out through the characters is so beautiful, it's like a spiritual sequel to Inherent Vice, the manifestation of that foreboding wave.
I could see myself returning to this again.

Underrated book for sure

biblioklept.org/2019/05/16/the-spilled-the-broken-world-from-thomas-pynchons-vineland

This has to be one of my favorite passages from his entire bibliography

Heard V is good

Just started doing a reading group of Gravity’s Rainbow with a couple friends. About 80 pages in, crazy ass book. Loving it so far tho

Yeah this podcast is what got me interested in him cuz he’d mention it on random episodes. Haven’t listened to any of the Pynchon episodes themselves yet tho, want to wait until I’m finished with Gravity’s Rainbow so it doesn’t affect my reaction/interpretation of things

Reading my first Pynchon book with The Crying of Lot 49! His writing and prose is so interesting and idiosyncratic to me. A third into the book and still getting used to it.

Did you finish it? I read it in like 2.5 months. Incredible read. One of if not my favorite book of all time and potentially might be the most important novel ever made

Just finished and I didn’t really enjoy this much. I love the idea of a rogue postal service who secretly run the world but what I got was quite a boring and structural tale of an unsolved mystery. About 40 pages in, you realize you don’t really give a s*** about what the Trystero is..