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  • Sep 19, 2024
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    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.

  • Sep 19, 2024
    Notmyfirst

    It’s called gravity’s rainbow

    Thank you

  • Nov 6, 2024

    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.

  • Dec 11, 2024

    almost time for a gravity's rainbow revisit 2tbh2bh

  • Dec 11, 2024

    pinecones prose is unmatched

  • Dec 11, 2024
    Jonboi

    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

  • Dec 11, 2024

    mgs references caught me off guard

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

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

  • ThomFork

    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.