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Are Pynchon books actually readable or just gibberish?

He just released a new book at 92 years old Cn a normal ...
Chestnut ungodly principal's office friendly grandma
  10/10/25
I think all his books over the past 15 years have been inten...
carmine demanding pistol
  11/09/25
has a single famous person released a single great work past...
drunken light becky
  10/10/25
Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 y...
Chestnut ungodly principal's office friendly grandma
  10/10/25
Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut H...
Swashbuckling pit sneaky criminal
  10/10/25
Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. H...
aquamarine charismatic idiot
  10/10/25
Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, i...
Pearly Contagious Personal Credit Line
  10/10/25
I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything a...
Crawly spruce office
  10/10/25
Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening sce...
Crawly spruce office
  10/10/25
(guy who literally can't remember who the author was)
iridescent stage masturbator
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burgundy shrine
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stubborn karate university
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Lime church building volcanic crater
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Pearly Contagious Personal Credit Line
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Irradiated alcoholic yarmulke ape
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stubborn karate university
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Chestnut ungodly principal's office friendly grandma
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Oh, you read?
Sienna bespoke point knife
  10/10/25
they're pretty readable his later stuff more so than the ea...
Aggressive Gay Wizard Idea He Suggested
  10/10/25
That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, alt...
stubborn karate university
  10/10/25
Mason and Dixon was written when he was like 50 and it's abo...
carmine demanding pistol
  11/09/25
I loved the first half of Mason and Dixon and then it starte...
Irradiated alcoholic yarmulke ape
  11/09/25
The prose itself is not difficult to read but there is often...
Insane Marketing Idea Chapel
  11/09/25
crying of lot 49 was extremely funny in parts. the whole su...
shaky lascivious field patrolman
  11/09/25


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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Chestnut ungodly principal's office friendly grandma

He just released a new book at 92 years old

Cn a normal person read these or are they like NSAMs "by you" page?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2]#49339600)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 3:53 AM
Author: carmine demanding pistol

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)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: drunken light becky

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: Chestnut ungodly principal's office friendly grandma

Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 years old



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2]#49339617)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: Swashbuckling pit sneaky criminal

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: aquamarine charismatic idiot

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: Pearly Contagious Personal Credit Line

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: Crawly spruce office

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: Crawly spruce office

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: iridescent stage masturbator

(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: burgundy shrine



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: stubborn karate university



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: Lime church building volcanic crater



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Pearly Contagious Personal Credit Line



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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: Irradiated alcoholic yarmulke ape



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: stubborn karate university



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:59 PM
Author: Chestnut ungodly principal's office friendly grandma



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: Sienna bespoke point knife

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: Aggressive Gay Wizard Idea He Suggested

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2]#49340460)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:02 PM
Author: stubborn karate university

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: carmine demanding pistol

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: Irradiated alcoholic yarmulke ape

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: Insane Marketing Idea Chapel

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: shaky lascivious field patrolman

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2]#49413750)