>supposedly one of the greatest Novelists of all time>approaching his death>hasnt written a Novel in over a decade>world is falling apart around him>the politics of his youth led to this>people are now crazier than his own characters>the world is now more dystopian than he ever imagined>God awaits the judgement of his soul>writes what could be his last novel>its another throwaway zany detectiveslop nothingburger about Nazis thats barely 200 pagesWhat the fuck happened to this idiot?
>>24841239Pynchon isn’t real. Just like Shakespeare.
>>24841242What is he
>>24841247A CIA psyop.
>>24841242This. Same with Harry Potter. It’s a committee of writers.
>the world is falling apart around himNo, it isn't.>people are now crazier than his own charactersNo, they aren't.>the world is now more dystopian than he ever imaginedNo, it isn't. Go outside. Go to a pub or something. Log off.
>>24841269Jew
>>24841285Dysfunctional retard.
>>24841239I actually get your point and I had a similar thought when stumbling onto a Chomsky interview book (with a south american socialist leader), the premise of which was giving advice for this century. And all they could reasonably talk about was the last one. Cold war politics. They’re old men who already had all their radical idea years. Pinecone is old too. He’s had his battles with what America is, the shadow government, military industrial complex and it all sounds so very 1900s. I don’t think it’s a weakness in these geezers not being able to hit the pulse of three generations removed. It’s an unreasonable next to hero worship coming from the audience in asking them to have a topical next gen take when they’re 70+ or older.
>>24841288I’m functioning just fine, actually. I’m just not a Jew retard like you.
>>24841298He could’ve at least tried, I think that’s OP’s point.
Shadow Ticket was probably the most talked about book at the No Kings protests
>>24841239I didn't expect anything scathing or revolutionary to begin with. It's the perfect, cozy soft landing to wrap up his his career on a graceful note, safe and familiar, nothing pompous
>>24841239>>the world is now more dystopian than he ever imaginedLil nigga lived through WW2, I think he can take Blumpf and zoomer phone addiction
He's 100 years old.
>>24841239I disagree that he should have made the book be more about drumpf or whatever but yeah pretty disappointing that it’s just wacky quirk
>>24841301Just ruins his own rep and body of work shitting out an attempt to be relevant. Bunch of obits and literary hit pieces on how he lost touch and made a cringeworthy last entry. Who needs that shit?
You only have so much juice. Someone like Pynchon that writes a masterpiece uses about 3/4s of their stores on that. To expect him to write even his second best novel at three hundred seventy-six years old is just wishful thinking.
>>24841264you mean Harry Potter isn't real?
I can't imagine seeing the novel this way unless you have not read it.
>>24841239Unfortunately true. Kind of wish I hadn't read it. Could've used the time to re-read GR or something.
There can be no literature in the time of Blumph. Words fail. Novels fail. We all fail.
>>24841239>>supposedly one of the greatest Novelists of all timeWho says that?
>>24841465>Who says that?/lit/
He's 88 dude, let him do what he enjoys and write zany detective novels
>>24841465I do.
>>24841465you are supposed to say "sez who" idiot
>>24841465A lot of people wankstain.
>>24841465I heard it was common among boomers. Kind of died out as gen z aged up.
>>24841553No one but his delusional cult says that>>24841606Boomers never liked him. Pynchon has the mpst overzealous fans. Half the praise for him has always been fabrication.
>>24841285...Do you actually spend your time like this? Online? Huh. This is so silly.
>>24841239It’s 293 pages though. Also he doesn’t own you shit.
>>24841301>triedThis is like a parent telling you to do your own math homework while they make you dinner from scratch and you saying they could have just tried.
>>24841640No one owns my shit, buddy, not even me.
>>24841640Owe*
>>24841299Tell yourself whatever you have to.>>24841622I'm glad to be honest, I couldn't have asked for a more apropos response.
>>24841360Being a nation at war is difficult but still belies a functional society on some level, which is not what we have now.
>>24841264I think the first three were actually written by Rowling, the rest are definitely written by commitee.
>>24841251You kid but there's truth to this. I remember the day I found it in a footnote of a book and it blew my mind wide open. I just wonder if the conspiracy goes deeper, perhaps to another banal recruiting attempt
>>24841643Your mom just told you to do your math homework, didn’t she?
>>24841622Yea, just like you are
>>24841925>aproprosJew
