by Pynchon, so I imagine someone here is actually reading it, and not just faking an opinion based on hearsay or a glance at paragraph one.After a slow opening few pages, I'm getting into the good stuff - Germans versus Italians in the depresion era, radioactive cheese substitute, the origins of the FBI. It doesn't go for extended description, but it's funny, and the metaphors are pointed in cool directions.
Gotta be honest. I read the first chapter the night of release. Went back to the book yesterday, had to reread that shit. Maybe I'm too retarded to not get filtered by the first chapter of Pynchon's AI slop, but continuing now.
>>24785375It's cool man. I don't think capter one has that much to offer, and the Hicks / Boynt dynamic isn't really there yet. Chapter three is the real kickoff
>>24785379The number of times I've been seven lines deep into dialogue and thinking "who in the fuck is even talking right now" has happened twice in the first 15 pages. Take the opening of chapter 2. Hicks and Skeety arrive at the bomb site. Cool. Now we hop right into chatter at a police outpost--some attribution to say who the hell it is that's saying what would be helpful.
>>24785397Not giving the retarded probably MPD captain a name was probably a direct choice, and I'm guessing it's Hicks calling out the German engineering (damn, they make good ordinance, man)
>>24785397Agreed. Bringing in Skeet doesn't work, and only messes up the clarity of unattributed dialogue - because it should be that Boynt is the boss and smart guy, with Hicks making futile attempts to match his sallies, but then the dynamic between Hicks and the kid is so different that in the absence of clear signalling it's hard to follow the voices
"A big ape with a light touch. The light touch fools women into thinking he’s sensitive, which he isn’t."Take notes, you brutes.
How likely is it that Adolf Hitler was regular dinner conversation matter in 1932 Milwaukee?
"“You can’t trust the newsreels, you only think you’ve seen him, the Jews who control the movie business only allow footage that will make him look crazy or comical, funny little guy, funny walk, funny mustache, German Charlie Chaplin, how serious could he be? But there also exist other Hitler movies, yes, some even filmed in color, home movies, a warmer, gayer Hitler, impulsive, unorthodox, says whatever comes into his head, what’s wrong with that?”"Fag Hitler and dastardly Jews in the same sentence? Based Pynch!(How in the fuck was that (((New Yorker))) reviewer bitching about no orange man bad with a line like this?)
> plate glass window reflections, penumbras of lamposts and the ends of trolley lines to the edges of suburbs still officially to be named - haunting given stretches of sidewalk just as the shops close down and the girls come out dazy and chattering, cigarette smoke and perfume in the slowly more intensifying light of the evening street, immersed too deep in lives that [he] could never quite see any plausible way to step into
>>24785397Maybe literature isn't for you.
>>24785551I'd fit right in with the crowd here on /lit/ then, wouldn't I?
He's just taken the job, I'm excited
>>24785561>the crowdKek. Already do, anon
