Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
>>24797419you first
I'm depressed that what should have been the literary event of the decade was such an utter and total non-event. Humanity's in a dark place.
>>24797419Im 10 chapters in an it’s a typical “trust the process” Pynchon read. Sometimes I have no clue if I’m reading a flashback or not or why we it’s the third flashback chapter in a row.
>>24797462Should've made it about Trump
i read like 5 pages and already forgot who all these dudes are. stuffy keegan? boynt? thessaly? skeet? do i really need a wiki for a detective novel? filtered? ya maybe.
>>24797462reading is unc shit vro
>>24797474It literally IS about Trump. During the last handful of pages the Business Plot happens and Douglas MacArthur becomes president, the US enters a new timeline in which Thomas Pynchon is never born and his books are never written. All his characters are now refugees. The "Shadow Ticket" is Pynchon's ticket to the afterlife, he's saying "I'm fucking dead and Drumpf fucking killed me."
>>24797462I mean what do you expect? Most people don’t know what gravity’s rainbow is and think Pynchon just started writing books in 2009.
I forgot this book existed ngl
>>24797492Chat, is this real?
Not gonna lie the random namedrops like Kenosha made me wonder if it was AI ghostwritten
probably my favorite pynchon protag ever, im on my second reread right now
>>24797541Fuxk no thats pure tranny headcanon
It's funny to read everything with a Wisconsin accent.
>>24797912Sooo random that a book that takes place in Wisconsin would mention a place in Wisconsin
>>24798087I love that Kenosha Kid is Kyles nickname now and not Pinecones shitty joke.
>>24797419Not as bad as the last two, still worse than everything before than>except Vineland
>>24798191before than what?
