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