Only 250 pages in but I haven’t been obsessed with a book like I have with this for quite some time.Why did people lie to me and say GR is pynchon’s best?
I got to the talking dog and dropped it quite literally family guy, the book
Son & Xon
>>25280102It’s the Korean translation
taste is subjective anon
>>25280038Every prolific author has a popular book that gets hyped up by normies and a book that's actually better but hidden. GR is the meme and Mason & Dixon is for the knowers. For John Fowles, the Magus is a meme while true readers enjoy Collector.
>>25280203what is it for McCarthy? The Road?
>>25280210suttree (nta, i may be a failed normie)
>>25280210Unironically The Passenger, but we aren’t ready for that discussion yet.
>>25280102Sounds like a gay alien incest doujinshi that you'd find on exhentai.
>>25280214lol wut. The Passenger is the only McCarthy book I desperately wanted to end. The Road is definitely his most popular book AND is one of his most readable books. The only other that might be more readable may be No Country but that's because it was always meant to be turned into a movie script. Is it his best? Arguably no. But his best most normies are going to find far more difficult than The Road. Suttree or BM are far better books but they're going to get put down way more often.Basically I'm say McCarthy doesn't fit the hyped by normies but hidden book better format. Normies aren't going to like the "hidden" book.
>>25280242I’m saying that The Passager is his actual best work.
The sad truth is few people read much else of Pynchon except Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow.
>>25280038nah, M&D is comfy, but GR's better
>AtD>GR>V>M&D>SL>BE>IV>Vineland>lot49
>>25280320>>AtD
>>25280255Dat's not true. I also read V.!
>>25280038Should I read this? I’m a land surveyor.
>>25280690Prolly. GR is a meme, but Son & Xon has universal appeal. Hell, even Mark Knopfler wrote a song about it.
>>25280038I'll never get tired of saying that Pynchon is the JoJo of literary fiction. He may seem a bit out there, a bit too wacky to outsiders, but ball knowers can't get enough of him.
>>25280038Read Sotweed Factor after, if you continue to like it that much.
>>25280255i read vineland wow it sucked and it also smelled bad
>>25281068>>25281065Samefag
>>25280214>>25280246Congrats on your transition, xister
>>25281075*xonster
>>25280038this thread made me interested in this but doesnt this guy write postmodernist pseudslop normally?
>>25281431M&D is plotfag friendly and all the postmodern stuff you write off because you don't understand won't even be noticed because you don't understand it. Other than Against the Day, Pynchon is just barely postmodern and even Against the Day can be mostly understood without understanding postmodern lit; Pynchon is the most well known of the postmodernist because he is the most accessible and always offers something for the plotfag.
>>25280210The Road was on Oprah’s book club. NCFOM became a Coen bros hit. Blood Meridian used to be the secret knower book but got overexposed so now everyone hates it. I guess that leaves Suttree. The border trilogy was always considered a soft intro. Child of God is edgelord shit. Orchard Keeper is just too dull. >>25280214This could be it or even better Stella Maris alone.
>>25280203Is it Wizard Knight for Gene, where the Solar Cycle is his known masterpiece (though Long and Short are not as famous as well)?
>>25281546>genre fiction
>>25281431No he's one of the greatest writers of his time
>>25280038Because you shouldn’t listen to other people about books unless they’re Harold Bloom.But yes, M&D is indeed Pynchon’s best, I know discussions about The Great American Novel are stale and played out at this point but if any of his books deserve that title, its this one.
>>25280178Everything is subjective.
>>25280203Dashiell Hammett's case were the Maltese Falcon and The Thinman being his most popular, but Red Harvest and Glass Key were his best.
>>25282004“Everything is subjective” is an objective claim. Square the circle for me bucko
>>25282394>“Everything is subjective” is an objective claim.Correct.
>>25282394It's a dialetheia, a true contradiction, like the Liar's Paradox.
>>25280210The Crossing
>>25280038> The low part of the higher mind that Pynchon so pyrotechnically appeals to (the same part that responds to Escher drawings, PDQ Bach, and perspective-switching holograms) is not a part of myself I’m in touch with, nor do I particularly long to be. I admire Pynchon; I’m wowed by him at times; but the truth is I’m happy leaving him to the experts whose academic labs gave birth to him >
>>25283694>PDQ BachFucking kek. That is pretty much M&D in a nutshell. Tromboon is genius and absolute stupid.
