we love The Meme Trilogy, don't we folks?
I don't like Gravity's RainbowMason & Dixon is the only Pynchon I likedInfinite Jest is good.Haven't read Ulysses yet, but Dubliners was good and I respect Joyce as a writer.
>>25640269Joyce fucking SUCKS.
>>25640309looks cool with the eyepatch tho
I have no interest in Infinite Jest or Pynchon
someone REDPILL me on the gabler ulysses edition. Its the one I got. did I fuck it all up? is it over for me?
i couldnt make sense in my visual imagination of what was happening when i read the first several pages of GR. is it common to be filtered by this book? felt illiterate trying to piece it together
>>25640368GR reads like someone describing to you his Metal Gear Solid playthrough.
>>25640368Yeah took me ten tries to get the first dozen pages to click. I am about hundred pages in now. It's good. Same thing happened to me with watching inherent vice the first time, had to turn it off after a few minutes since I had no idea what was going on, but read the book many years later, enjoyed it, went back to the movie and loved it mostly.
Can someone please tell me if I should read The Recognitions or JR first? My favorite library has both. I'm leaning toward The Recognitions. It's a tough decision because whichever I choose is sure to occupy the rest of my 2026.
>>25640412Recognitions, but don't bother trying to get every reference.
>>25640418Thank you.
>>25640269Ulysses > GW > IJThey're all good though.
>>25640314I think it's the best one and also that it doesn't matter that much as far as your reading experience goes. It's a big book so you can shuffle some details this way or that.
>>25640269It's really an insult to Joyce to put him next to talentless hacks like Pynchon and DFW.
I can't build up enough interest to read Gravity's Rainbow. Any synopsis, description, or text excerpt I've read makes it sound like mental masturbatory nonsense.
>>25640499What do you think Joyce would be reading if he were alive these days (and got his shitty eyes fixed)?
Got pic related in the mail, which text should I get?This one uses the gabler text but for some reason that seems hard to buy these days? Everyone wants to sell the 1922 edition
>>25640269Love Ulysses and GRDon't really feel like reading IJ. Maybe someday
>the meme trilogySomeone post the screencap
>>25640269Not really, I have no particular interest in these stories, and I miss out on nothing by skipping them. Only Ulysses has merit as a unique work of English, and even then, it's not like I'm jumping on the chance to work through Shakespeare every day.
>>25640485Gwavity’s wainbow :3
>>25640376This is actually the best description of GR I've read.
>>25640269My friend who has never been into reading in any capacity read infinite jest recently and now all she does is bemoan modern literary culture. Like omfg please shut up, you have to earn your pretension!
>>25641721>read infinite jest recently and now all she does is bemoan modern literary cultureMost people uppity about it are larpers or noobs. They haven't felt the disillusionment or the monotony set in yet.
IJ is honestly a rather engaging work, but the elitism is unnecessary. Using Wallace's ideas just to act smarter than others or to look down on people today completely misses the point of what he was actually trying to say.
>>25641726That kind of thing has completely turned me off from reading Infinite Jest desu, I just want to keep reading the random bullshit that catches my eye or is given by a friend than try to play the olympics of larping, my pretentiousness is true and authentic bc I can’t stand performative pretentiousness
>>25641744do you have a high school diploma?
>>25640368It doesn't make any sense. Just push through the opening and you'll eventually find your orientation. >>25640376Lmao
>>25640368think like wwii nuclear testing ground atmosphere and glowies fucking around in europe, some gruff 40s-50s silent gen drunk schizo rough n tough weirdos fucking with rockets and shit
>>25641767The opening specifically is meant to resemble the Last Judgment mixed with an air raid.>Some wait alone, some share their invisible rooms with others. Invisible, yes, what do the furnishings matter, at this stage of things? Underfoot crunches the oldest of city dirt, last crystallizations of all the city had denied, threatened, lied to its children. Each has been hearing a voice, one he thought was talking only to him, say, “You didn’t really believe you’d be saved. Come, we all know who we are by now. No one was ever going to take the trouble to save you, old fellow…”
>>25641777>it's another "It's good because it references the Jew book!"Everytime with the midwit/postmodern lit, never fails. Checked btw, trips of ass.
>>25641784cringe
>>25641784>"It's good because it references the Jew book!"This but unironically
