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Are Pynchon books actually readable or just gibberish?
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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:56 PM Author: magical deer antler He just released a new book at 92 years old
Cn a normal person read these or are they like NSAMs "by you" page? |
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Date: November 9th, 2025 3:53 AM Author: Idiotic crimson tanning salon I think all his books over the past 15 years have been intended to be converted to screenplay/film so his son Jackson can have some money when he dies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49413738) |
Date: October 10th, 2025 12:57 PM Author: autistic arrogant doctorate has a single famous person released a single great work past 80? or maybe even 70? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339603) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: magical deer antler Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 years old
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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:44 PM Author: hateful azn Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut Hamsun for collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation. He was in his 90s at the time. while he was under house arrest and subjected to weeks of compulsory psychiatric examination at an oslo mental hospital, he wrote an account of the case and defense of his activities in the war. The account was published under the title, "on overgrown paths." It's an exceptional work by a nonagenarian. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340592) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:15 PM Author: Embarrassed To The Bone Swashbuckling Property Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. He'll be 90+ (or dead) when the next volume comes out, and I still expect it to be great. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340736) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:07 PM Author: know-it-all police squad parlour Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, is readable but in a strange way. Often it's individual episodes that are linked thematically with a shitton of individual character plot lines that often don't intersect. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339637) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:11 PM Author: arousing parlor hissy fit I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339649) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:12 PM Author: arousing parlor hissy fit Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening scenes. Maybe involving a private detective (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339651) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:13 PM Author: jet bateful house (guy who literally can't remember who the author was) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339653) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:14 PM Author: Spruce rebellious coffee pot karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339655) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM Author: white boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340593) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Unhinged mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339676) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:36 PM Author: know-it-all police squad parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339924) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:16 PM Author: big-titted cracking telephone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340403) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM Author: white boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340594) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:59 PM Author: magical deer antler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340671) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:38 PM Author: bronze multi-colored ladyboy scourge upon the earth Oh, you read? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49339930) |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:42 PM Author: appetizing alpha juggernaut they're pretty readable his later stuff more so than the earlier ones he got acclaim for that said crying of lot 49 is pretty accessible and fun |
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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:02 PM Author: white boistinker That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, although Pynchon disowned them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49340682) |
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Date: November 9th, 2025 3:54 AM Author: Idiotic crimson tanning salon Mason and Dixon was written when he was like 50 and it's about as good as Gravity's Rainbow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49413739) |
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Date: November 9th, 2025 7:11 AM Author: big-titted cracking telephone I loved the first half of Mason and Dixon and then it started to drag for me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49413804) |
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Date: November 9th, 2025 4:45 AM Author: bearded amethyst nowag The prose itself is not difficult to read but there is often no linear plot, so if that's what you are looking for then not for you. Also some of the stuff like Gravity's Rainbow is filled with obscure engineering references, mathiness and pop culture nods to the point where noone will catch every one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2)#49413748) |
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Date: November 9th, 2025 4:54 AM Author: pontificating marketing idea resort crying of lot 49 was extremely funny in parts. the whole sub-plot with the midget submarine, for example. gravity's rainbow is fascinating but can take some research, since he was playing around with causality/order of events through a lot of the book.
eg, slothrop's abreactions and erections imply that his timeline is toroidal rather than linear, like the arc of a V2 rocket. the phrase 'beyond the zero' is an entendre for dipping below the 'zero' of a plane or the current reading of a linear timeline and curving back around, thus creating bizarre causal consequences. it's more explicitly science-fiction than other books he did. |