“At first Vera and I were delighted at reading Pynchon. We felt like we were on the portico of a great house. Then we realized there was no house."
Nabokov, Vladimir. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.
>>25227198It’s funny because he loved himself.
To accept Pynchon as a quality writer is to garb yourself in a coat of hot pockets and video games and then writhe around on the ground in a supermarket while screeching and slapping yourself on the sides of your head.He is cheeto dust. Nothing more.Nothing more than a hack, a useful tool for publishers to trot out to say "Hey, we're making literary fiction!" I cannot wrap my head around the adulation he receives, let alone the wide praise this has got. The book trudges from set piece to set piece, leaves us no real questions or anything to think about really.The same bullet that kills a Foster Wallace fan will also kill the Pynchon and Delillo fan. They come from the same root, from the same doritos stained console. They are frauds, and as a warrior of literature it's my duty to expose the fakes and the inauthentic when I see them. I will fight with crawls and teeth until the last imposter is fallen to the groundI have about as much respect for Thomas Pynchon as I do for the dogshit on my shoe. It is reddit. It is video game hot pocket. It is capeshit. It is cheeto dust. I'm literally screaming right now and slamming my arms down on my desk just thinking about it.It is the most depraved video game infantilized manchild degeneracy. It is saturday morning cartoon. It is non-neurotypicality. It is memes. It is video game. It is tarantino. It is imdb.It is coca-cola puberty. it is axe body spray. it is a white stain on boxer shorts. it is arri alexa hot dog caffeine on disney channel.Pynchon 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.
>>25227125>>25227421Guess you faggots post the same shit every day like every other board. Shouldn't be surprised.
>>25227396He considered Ulysses to be far beyond anything he could ever write
>>25227535Niggas really be impressed by run-on sentences n shieeet
wtf I hate pynchon now?
>>25227125One of the better takes on Pynchon I've read. Entirely true.
>>25227125I love Pynchon's prose and find his works to be pretty funny but I do find them to be ultimately rather hollow. Maybe Nabby is on to something here.
>>25229285>>25229329Nabokov did say something like this but he said it about Borges not Pynchon.
>>25229377Interesting because I felt Pale Fire to be very Borgesian
>>25229377fits better for pynchon
>>25227125isn't that quote about Borges?
