This book is reddit. Pure reddit. I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 30 pages it was so painful
just because he is left-wing? come on, chuddie.
>>25182658ah, so you're a fan of the scene with Katje and Brigadier Pudding?
>>25182658>This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes...lol maybe stop chanting this invocation mantra next time you read a book, you reddit obsessed loser.
>>25182658i think the problem may be that the only shadows flickering on the walls of your empty skull are those cast by our dismal internet culture. but don't despair. try watching a ton of movies from the 30s and 40s and reading about 60s California and you'll have a better idea of what's going on in the book.
>>25182669>>25182675>>25182691>>25182711Pynchon is a miserable hack whose movies are propped up entirely by reddit meme writing which gets the r/literature and r/truelit pleb crowd all hot and bothered. It is the death knell of Literature. One of the biggest trashmasters working today, a hack's hack. This is hot pocket the writer. Cheeto dust: the man.His books are a bad joke; an insult to the literary medium; a gob of spit aimed at all that is good and great about literature. Another polished postmodern gritty popcorn writer.
>>25182713judging Pynchon for being reddit is like judging R Crumb for being deviantart. the degraded subterranean imitations are blinding you to the upper world of true forms.
>>25182713>>25182658Umm.../lit/bros why are we copying /tv/ memes? Aren't we supposed to be more creative?
>>25182713>This post was directed by Thomas Pynchon
>>25182658lmao but did your never did the Kenosha Kid?
>>25182658>The big contemporary novel is a perpetual-motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence—as it were, a criminal running endless charity marathons. Stories and sub-stories sprout on every page, as these novels continually flourish their glamorous congestion. Inseparable from this culture of permanent storytelling is the pursuit of vitality at all costs. Indeed, vitality is storytelling, as far as these books are concerned. If, say, a character is introduced in London, call him Toby Awknotuby (that is, “ To be or not to be”—ha!) then we will be swiftly told that he has a twin in Delhi (called Boyt, which is an anagram of Toby, of course), who, like Toby, has the same very curious genital deformation, and that their mother belongs to a religious cult based, oddly enough, in the Orkney Islands, and that their father (who was born at the exact second that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima) has been a Hell’s Angel for the last thirteen years (but a very curious Hell’s Angels group it is, devoted only to the fanatical study of late Wordsworth), and that Toby’s mad left-wing aunt was curiously struck dumb when Mrs. Thatcher was elected prime minister in 1979 and has not spoken a word since. And all this, over many pages, before poor Toby Awknotuby has done a thing, or thought a thought!
>>25182658Uh-oh jeet angy his Project Holy Reddit thread didn’t go his way
>>25182658Pynchon is unreadable garbage.
>>25184376I just think he's neat
He’s okay. Better than most other postmodernists. Sure he’s reddit but that doesn’t harm his writing.
>>25182658>I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.Sovl
The plot that the anons in the Gaddis thread concocted is coming to fruition. Fear their strength.
>>25184416Oh no, I’m so afraid that a bunch of /v/ tourist teenagers are going to say mean things about a writer I’m indifferent to.
>>25184416What plot is that?
>>25182658>I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.
>>25182675>mfw reading that scene
>>25184393That was a good scene. I also liked the scene where he was describing the war crime of British candies.
>>25184346Jeepers, it's almost as if Tommy Pinecone and other Writers of his sort are invoking the Menippean Satire. Or-Or other forms of Satire in general, and creating realistic Characters is not their main Focus.
