This was so ass. The "supernatural" stuff was embarrassing. This is the last time I let /lit/ meme me into reading garbage.
>>24934769>supernaturalall of it actually happened>inb4 it did notwere you there?
I’m trying to read GR and feel I’m being memed. Just tell the fucking story and stop with the looney tunes Reddit shit
>>24934781stop reading it then plotfag no one has a put a penis to your hole forcing you to read jeezus
>>24934781Reddit is preferable to whatever the fuck zoomshits are doing.
>no Japanese Insurance Adjusterwe got robbed
>>24934769>This was so assI can't imagine falling for Pynchon slop.
>>24936241That’s a subplot in Vineland, fren
>>24934781GR gets really fucking dark, without the goofy shit it would be very hard hard to read.
>>24936241its comingt. knower
>>24934769he finally completely outed himself as a corny boomer and retroactively refuted his entire corpus...Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon are actually trash and you got memed
>>24934781>>24936687GR is as dark as Pynchon gets, you get bombings and rapes every other chapter, I get what you mean but if you don't like it, you'll probably hate the rest of his books.
im enjoying it so far
I've got about forty pages left and I will admit I'm a bit disappointed.Every chapter feels like it's setting something up for a massive sprawling adventure like M&D but there clearly isn't time for a payoff. The common Pynch criticism of very thin characters just briefly breezing through is usually fun to me but he inserted enough into this book for one five times its length. Every other fucking page there's a new literal who that's almost completely interchangeable with several others (I think I counted five or six scrappy young street kid sidekicks with no tangible differences).The protagonist barely exists and hasn't fucking done anything. You get the glimpse at his previous strikebreaking job but for the entire present storyline he just gets moved around by other people and goes "Mmm... Things are getting difficult, toots... I got a bad feeling about what's gonna happen later. I don't wanna go to the next place everybody's telling me I have to go." And then somebody takes him to the next place, again, and he just mopes around it, again, and then somebody says "Oh Hicks you're gonna hate the next place we tell you you have to go."It feels like if you fed IV to an AI and told it to remake it in the 30s, you'd get exactly this. There just doesn't seem to be a point to any of it.
>>24939416the protagonist almost completely drops out in the back half of the book it's incredible.
And yes, now that I've finished it, I'd say my least favorite piece from Pynchon.The book is billed as a madcap journey through central Europe but nobody even leaves the Midwest until almost two-thirds of the way through. He's still able to write the occasional scene that makes your hair stand up but there's no actual mystery behind it all this time, everything just deflates.My gut reaction is to worry about his health. It feels like he had some ideas for a book then got sick or fucking died before he could bring them to completion.
The guy is 88 years old.
>>24940801>He's still able to write the occasional scene that makes your hair stand upName one pls
>>24940807Nigga hail hitler
>>24941224I wish pynchon was racistToo bad he's leftist Who's the nazi equivalent of pynchon
>>24941520No one. Evil can not create.
>>24941709>nazi>evil
Only thing in the entire book that was cringe was the "Jew-jitsu" bit but I'll forgive Pinecone this small faux-pas.
>>24941709Well that explains Pynchon's body of work but he was asking about Nazis.
>>24943227What has Pynchon ever done to you, man?
>>24941520There would never be a Nazi Pynchon because the Nazis believed true art is sacred and timeless.
last half of the book is just pic rel
