first Pynchon novel and this is so hard to follow. about 60% through and I don't exactly know what's going on but I'm all here for it
>>24942219This was my first Pynchon novel, too, and the only one I've read so far. I enjoyed it a lot and respect what he was trying to do, as confusing and weird as it was. I didn't have much trouble understanding what was happening, though. You kinda have to take what he describes at face value (meaning that when he says a random band appearing out of nowhere to play a song, it's actually happening). I'll definitely read some more Tommy Pinecone at some point
>>24942219>I don't exactly know what's going onnot a good sign for me. I only read V. and it started out absolutely brilliant. I thought, if it kept at that pace it would definitely become my favourite book. but slowly things just started not get jumbled and senseless and eventually I got to a point just over half way where what the characters were saying was just incomprehensible to me and I didn't even know who most of them were, and I stopped. might pick it up again in future, who knows.
>>24942576if you were enjoying reading it I think it's worth just trudging through, you end up picking up more than you realize. later on down the road, if you feel like giving it another go, re-reading it will 100% get you more understanding of it than the first go around. my 2 cents there
its the only one worth reading desu. the voice is almost completely different from everything that follows. i think GR and after isnt him.
>>24942576V. is a terrible place to start with Pynchon as it was put together from earlier short stories.I started with GR and luckily was hooked early on during the banana breakfast.
>>24942219All the Pynchon fanboys will call you a retard for not being able to follow his schizobabble fever dream style. He's a lot of work for very little payoff. The juice really isn't worth the squeeze. Not enjoyable at all. I hate cryptohippie boomers.
>>24942632>reading a book twice gives you greater comprehension of the work>just my 2 centsinsightful stuff. thanks for posting.
>>24942576>Stencil filters anotherIt is an epistolary novel but the epistolary aspects are presented as Stencil's stream of consciousness as he reads them which means we have to analyze them in both modes; first as a stream of consciousness so we can understand and untangle Stencil from the epistolary sources which we can then use to inform how we interpret thr whole.
>>24942219Complete shit and anyway James wood debunked Pynchon a quarter of a century ago. Next!>https://newrepublic.com/article/61361/human-inhuman
>>24943155I love James Woods. What an actor, what a psychopath.. I got to play cards with him at the Bicycle Casino. He was drinking coffee and asked the floor to put the TV on Fox news. He was such a pimp in his heyday he had hot pieces of ass like picrel stalking him so hard he had to take legal action. I think I'll watch Salvador tonight.
>>24943196and I love him even more after reading him shit all over postmodernist lit. This is like finding out your cranky grandfather who won't shut up about Obama's birth certificate was secretly a genius literary critic
