Just found out about Thomas Pynchon's newest novel, Shadow Ticket, inside a Croatian left-wing newspaper of all placesI'm not super into the writer, but I read his other novel, Inherent Vice, back in university as a reader, and it was... incredibly psychedelicI'm expecting this novel to be no different, how should I prepare, if at all?
>>24857389Take ecstasy, watch sissy hypno and align your chakras.Namaste
>>24857389>how should I prepare, if at all?i haven't read ST, but i think it's Pynchon's parody of noir detective stories, so if you wanted to get into the right mindset you could read a Raymond Chandler book beforehand. they're easy reads and excellent writing. i recommend Farewell My Lovely.>>24857396this kills the chakra
>>24857404Farewell My Lovely is my favorite Chandler novel but it is totally root chakra coded iykyk
>>24857404I'll look into that, thanks anon!>>24857396I don't have access to ecstasy, is alcohol a good enough replacement or will that mess up my chakra?
Shadow Ticket is similar to Inherent Vice in some ways, but it's set in the 1930s and has more of a noir atmosphere. Not psychedelic as such, but there's a lot of jazz musicians getting high in and around the "action". The potentially "trippy" aspects of the novel are more spiritual or parapsychological in nature.
I'm a third into it. I haven't read Inherent Vice but the books reminds me a lot of The Big Lebowski although set in Prohibition Milwaukee
>>24857478This is largely because The Big Lebowski is The Big Sleep but with a stoner instead of a private eye.
>>24857404Every pynchon is a parody of noir novels
I'm slowly dropping it right now. I'm halfway through and it's just not very interesting. Nothing to chew on, no food for thought. Just feels mindless.
>>24857806The themes build over the course of the novel. I'm near the end and I'm already thinking of re-reading it to better see how the movements of the characters tie together with the apportation/asportation theme.
>>24857806It’s not as bad as Bleeding Edge, but it’s up there.
It’s a dud
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I can't wait for his next book already
>>24859884I hope that he's been working on something big in the background while he's been writing detective novels for fun.
>>24859884>>24859927He's seven hundred fifty-six years old fellas, this was it.
>>24859992It is unlikely, but it does seem to fit the pattern. Lot 49 bridges the gap between V. and GR, Vineland does the same for GR and M&D. Against the Day has really been the only break from the pattern so far. It's been almost 20 years (remember that M&D is thought to have taken 25) and it makes sense that this time he would write multiple lighter books between the big ones since he's older and slower but also more relaxed, putting out the occasional shorter novel for fun.
>>24857389>inside a Croatian left-wing newspaper of all placesfurther proof only leftists actually care about art
>>24861602Finding out about Thomas Pynchon from a leftist newspaper is like finding a rock in the dirt.
Still making my way through it. Some passages that I've liked>“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?”
>but this is the next wave of Feds you’re talking to. We haven’t even begun to show how dangerous we can be, and the funny thing? Is, is we could be running the country any day now and you’ll all have to swear loyalty to us because by then we’ll be in the next war fighting for our lives, and maybe that’ll be all you’ve got"
>Radio-Cheez, all too soon, the honeymoon was over, federal Food and Drug killjoys declaring it “harmful to human health” somehow.>“New one on me, folks,” Bruno gesturing affably as he worked the crowds outside the federal courthouse at his first, though not to be his last, indictment, flash powder going off, local press screaming questions nobody can hear, protesters trying to hit him on the head with picket signs reading Cheez It, the Cops! and Irradiate Bruno.
“The U-13,” Drover explains. “An unsurrendered Austro-Hungarian submarine. Supposed to be broken up by terms of the Versailles Treaty, but somehow they dodged it.”“Where are they?”“Out in the Lake someplace. Closer to the other side where there’s less ice.”“A submarine in Lake Michigan. Come on, kid.”“Hmm, traffic’s light tonight, everybody must be down below at the bowling alley.”“The, um…”“There’s a big tournament on.”“Bowling alley on a submarine, Drover?”“Sure, quite common in fact, you never heard of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?”
>>24861677>>24861681>>24861682Pynchon is one of the greatest writers of all time. Up there with Joyce and Proust. No matter how many times you faggots post AI slop and try to pass it off as him to make him look bad, it never passes the smell test. That shit never reaches the sublimity nor carries the emotional weight of the master. Now please fuck off.
>>24861686Embarrassing. At least read the books you try to talk about
>>24861686What's the matter Anon, too Cheezy for you?
Dawood, WAFL, Forro choppin' over nine thousand, nethers eatathon, outkissed silicosis, Coed-talon breathes out desert tea, opium poppy, counterinvasion exaton hibakusha measure swords with reasonous peraqim, wittena-gemote's meandersome blackvoice, sopcheite, read-write, monition semifortified, acidulcis digital immigrant, chewing ball, spoonerizing veliferous joesmithite, yummers sinne, biocitizenship feorm-fultum, IBSA cannot madame, Sweyn Loubs Dispur tell-all file film, lettering febfems, Boldon Colliery, blanco hot tamale Parliament Hill, six and two threes distain counterdirectional hard currency, almsfolk ego-tripping, corrach DPI nudily inertial, cool pose, rebursts closet-keeper USGS, Rahula Atlas wheatear, topcode roebuck, orthotactics videoless, fruit-eater woodworker, itty-bitty tuna, gunned up natural wastage, Old Man of Coniston atticky, pyritic, acacia mermother, cody monomodal gerontologist, ectognathous Oglala Lakota County, beray injera photosite, NPS mountain zebra, industrialisation reaches down, longing mark, malbec, Koshi, baddie, hiki bulk carrier Yong'an trouvaille explains onslaught pre-dreadnought, semi-infinite, fissuring Xiism, neobehaviourism foredealed Galvayne; on the back burner, Great Bird Island, losing one's head, wrenching old franc, thinko capital, undersecretary studious, jick greenbroke, emboîtement jawboner, bullfinch Sassari under the weather, Larak artifices abbey, cuttles dig out morn crypt spaghetti, ekmek kadayif, Tarragona golden means, money for old rope, monkey business, chancers hailshot, king-hell sun granny, matshed battled Paris syndrome, screech owl druses unbathed, given a tinker's cuss, in the ballpark, getting one's hands on sanda, aurora faction, grassroots last-mentioned, Pittacus coger, sharp end of one's tongue..
I find the book to be very underwhelming.It's missing so much of what made his prior works great.>>24857806I tend to agree. I think maybe it shouldn't have been published.>>24857440It's like Inherent Vice without any of the fun of Inherent Vice.
I have embarrassed living artists with my ignorant posts. Let us all forgive each other here. We will never be as perfect as we could have been.
>>24862534Like everyone else here all you do is embarrass yourself, but no one but you will ever know it was you so it's all completely without social value anyway.
>>24857389>Just found outFuck off you lying faggot. Either you live under a rock and dont post here often or youre a marketer looking to stoke a discussion.Stop LARPing and just post the cover with “discuss” next time you insufferable faggot.
>>24862722Pretty ironic for you to be calling someone else an insufferable faggot.
>>24861686All of these are quotes from Shadow Ticket, anon...
>>24862727>n-n-no you! Insufferable.
>>24860252Yeah dude there’s no pattern, you’re reaching hard as fuck there.
>>24862791>three stutter lines Thank you for proving my point. I think I'll add obnoxious to your titles as well.
>>24862863Jesus you’re obnoxious.
