Pynchon has ruined other books for me. They just don’t hit the same.

Currently on Bleeding Edge. In some ways it feels like a regression for his writing. Some parts are stupid. But, it’s still a lot of fun, and I like that there’s references I can actually recognize in this one.

Thank you

I don’t see enough love given to how Pynchon describes the most tender longing for genuine love & heartfelt attention. Some of my favourite moments from GR have just that:

“A victorian pose… her cheek against his leg, his high-veined hand against her face. But no one saw them, then or ever, and in the winter ahead, here and there, her look will cross his and she'll begin to blush red as her knees, she'll come to his room off the lab once or twice perhaps, but somehow they're never to have this again, this sudden tropics in the held breath of war and English December, this moment of perfect peace.”

Absolute poetry.

almost time for a gravity's rainbow revisit 2tbh2bh

pinecones prose is unmatched

bleeding edge was a trip

mgs references caught me off guard

just got vineland and lot49 at the thrift gonna dive into lot49 v soon

i've read lot 49 and just picked up a Vineland hardcover at a local store for super cheap.

I just read Lot 49 a couple weeks ago

It was good, but after reading Gravity Rainbow it really pales in comparison

Part II of Gravity’s Rainbow is still one of the coolest things i’ve read.

Just finished Gravity’s Rainbow, wow..

The ending is surreal, Slothrop’s fate, the movie theatre, the opening line.. it’s such a beautiful yet mysterious puzzle

Mason & Dixon masterpiece

Film adaptation would go crazy

George Washington scene would be an instant cinema classic

New Pynchon in October: Shadow Ticket. Another detective novel set in The Great Depression.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/shadow-ticket-by-thomas-pynchon

Oh s***.

Trying to get a hold of a copy of Vineland but damn they’re kind of hard to find and pretty expensive.

this gotta be the book club pick for October

wanna read another Pynchon before this drops. maybe Mason & Dixon or Bleeding Edge

Wow

no way, even on the german amazon its 12 euros

NEW S***?!

Guessing they haven’t reissued/printed new copies in a while, because it’s the same price on Thriftbooks even.

i had to special order vineland for my store lol the cover is archaic af but i like it for that honestly

Are you looking specifically for the hardcover edition? Paperback is cheap and widely available