Is he right?
>>24731370>gut with highly performative “coffee” drink makes a performative social media post about how reading a specific book is performativeHe would know, I suppose.
>performative posting
>>24731376to be fair it was in response to an article on the subject
>performative stopped reading right there
>>24731382>waah men don’t read>waaah men are reading it’s performative and fakeGlad I cut “news” out of my life. Fucking misery machine.
>>24731382Niggas reading harry potter lmao
>>24731403I think the whole description of a performative male reading is that they read mostly books associated with femininity or females i.e. feminist literature without so much as having a critical analysis of their own that doesn't entail 'patriarchy bad'
>>24731382I would say at first as a kid my interest in lit was performative because doing well on English tests was the only time I recall anyone showing any sort of respect for me but as an adult I grew out of performative reading. I can’t imagine most people even knowing of a book like Gravity’s Rainbow but I am not exactly from lit central.
>>24731382Thats fair
>>24731370As someone who has never read Pynchon, and has very little interest in reading Pynchon, what do people get out of reading Pynchon? It seems like the incomprehensibility of Joyce without any of his substantial value.
>>24731454What substantial value do you gain from Joyce?
>>24731454He reminds of Tolkien in that his use of language is unparalleled and so is his ability to craft an extensive tale filled with a motley cast of characters yet hold your attention for hundreds of pages.
>>24731454He has plenty of novels that are less weird and more approachable than GR. I like him for the humor and fun with history, physics, and mathematics. Some great prose, and just interesting ways of applying ideas from math/physics/history in more poetic ways.Also goofball musical numbers.
>>24731421I started reading independently of the curriculum in 11th grade because I thought it would get me laid.>>24731454Like a bunch of historical cartoons. It's fun.
>>24731454>I've never read Pynchon>gives a blanket statement on what he writesHuh?
>>24731370Only thing I read in public
>>24731382I dont like it when people see me. Id like to be invisible.
>>24731502Simpsons already pointed that out like 30 years ago.
>>24731370I wish more people knew about it, but if you aren't already a fan chances are it looks like any other big book
>>24731454It's like a collection of shitposts from the 60s
>>24731496It is quite good, you should actually read it instead of using it to larp as an edgy 14 year old.
>>24731419Why can't women be satisfied with anything?
>>24731661They never stop bitching
>>24731661Many women are lead to believe that they must live a life that coincides with the idea fed to them and in their head. And mind you this isn't something done by men or 'corporations' sometimes too, its done by other women TO women. Most of this ideas are fed through social media and shows. These (performative) men are just playing the game that women put out, and they're playing it so good that others are starting to notice it. Before they were called soft boys, before that fuck boys, and many more before that. And they keep falling for it too. I can give you 3 years tops when we'll see another category of men they'll bitch about.
>>24731454>As someone who has never read Pynchon, and has very little interest in reading PynchonSuck & Fuck version of Slaughterhouse 5 by a SIGINT spook. And a mid rehash of Sotweed Factor. Mostly homunculus prosody. And deliberately padded typeset so one can go LOOK MA A BIG HECKIN BRICK. So continue and do not be bamboozled by performative non-canon 'canon' FOMO (the other half is consistently eye catching Homos' Gravity cover art in new editions).
>>24731370>Women projecting their own "performative" habits onto men. There's just no way a guy would read GR for fun, right?To be fair most videos I see mocking these "performative men" are by pick-me guys that are ironically performing for women by doing so.
>>24731668What's the joke here
>>24731370Infinite Jest slander!
>>24731861>burger>martiniBonding your sister.
>>24731661That anon's description seems like a fairly justified complaint though. If we made the situation less gendered, it would be like someone who constantly reads about moral philosophy totally lacking in any kind of moral introspection.
>>24731370
>>24731454>It seems like the incomprehensibility of Joycethe incomprehensibility is a meme. It's just culturally dated and zoom zooms are only familiar with algorithms and soijaks.
>>24731668Kikes are the most vile people in the world
>>24731370Yes. Bonus points if you read it in public.
>>24731668egg and bacon sandwich, greek yogurt and a martini? that's a hell of a way to start the day.who doesn't drink when they fly? it's like taking the bus.
>>24732571pynchon is trash, though, and no matter how flawed the reasoning behind the conclusion, they're right to encourage you not to read him.
>>24732575Performative lowercase typing zoomer filtered by literature
>>24731403I bought a few margaret atwood books at a local used bookstore because they were recommended to me by /lit/ at the time (early 2010s). The cashier who was in her early 20's and chewing bubble gum looked at me and said "she's not gonna sleep with you". She then said "that's gonna be $18.49 (yes I have a good memory)" as the gum popped. im still upset over it
>>24732663I hope that bitch got cervical cancer
>>24732685...we're married
>>24732701So you get to domestically abuse her over the incident
I'm on page 400 of Gravity's Rainbow and it's complete torture. I can't stand his retarded obsession with dirty showtunes. Give me Hemingway or Fitzgerald any day.
>>24732777I’m 50 pages in and feel the same. I want to finish it but enjoyment of reading it definitely oscillates constantly. If I just do 9 pages a day I’ll be done in two months.
>>24731370Being concerned about whether something is performative is in itself performative. If you fear becoming a cliché even if it is authentically you then you are just Neal from Good old Neon.. and probably should follow his lead.
>>24731661Figure that one out and you would be the greatest philosopher who ever lived.
>>24732794At this point I feel like I'm in too deep to stop. I'm trying to read 20/25 pages a day. Once I read 20ish pages I pause and go to read something else.
>>24732794>9 pages a dayThe absolute state of /lit/ posters
>>24731403It’s literally just zoomers with those gay mustaches and some even gayer book that they saw on tiktok or Reddit or wherever zoomers get their identity.
