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Anonymous06/21/25, 24:34No.24483449Pynchon thread
Pynchon thread
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Anon06/21/25, 01:03No.24483511
what is a shadow ticket anyway
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Anon06/21/25, 01:06No.24483514
I want to be optimistic, but I bet it's about as shitty as Bleeding Edge was.
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Anon06/21/25, 01:08No.24483520
Im excited
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Anon06/21/25, 01:21No.24483540
is it another detective story?
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Anon06/21/25, 01:24No.24483543
Pynch must know /lit/ exists....
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Anon06/21/25, 02:23No.24483624
I can't get into his works.
Start with V, didn't like the pacing and tone so I stopped after the first chapter.
Next, lot49, can't deal with babble in sex scene between the woman and that guy and his younger self's movie.
Is inherent vice easier to get into him? Or should I just go straight to Gravity's Rainbow?
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Anon06/21/25, 10:25No.24484427
Hype as fuck about this, Pynchon is imo the best living author
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Anon06/21/25, 10:49No.24484456
Do you think I have time to read Against the Day Before this drops?
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Anon06/21/25, 10:55No.24484472
gimmick author
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Anon06/21/25, 11:00No.24484481
He is going to write about some irrelevant time period again, isn't he?
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Anon06/21/25, 12:49No.24484675
Weird developments about Shadow Ticket recently...
Penguin and Amazon both show updated page counts, dropping the original ~380 page count to 288. But apparently the German translation has already been printed in its original 380 page length, so it might just be a byproduct of formatting/margin manipulation... But I don't know. Mason and Dixon had Advanced Reading Copies printed that were 70 pages shorter than the final book, and Pynchon only sent in the final version at the very last minute right before they were set to start mass printing M&D. Vineland was also originally 523 pages long instead of 390. Against the Day was also 60-ish pages longer at first iirc. Bleeding Edge had a whole extra character excised. What do you guys think?
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Anon06/21/25, 14:43No.24484950
I can't wait to take a dump on its historical accuracy if it is really set in interwar hungary.
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Anon06/21/25, 15:25No.24485069
Soon...
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Anon06/21/25, 15:29No.24485081
I guess shadow ticket is in Spain for bullfights they price tickets depending if you are on the sun or in the shade and shadow ticket is when you get to sit in the shade
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Anon06/21/25, 17:15No.24485305
>new pynchon book in 2025 (yippee!)
>a detective hide and seek story (mein gotti! that's how to succumb my bored mind )
>Story set in The great Depression (i sleep)
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Anon06/21/25, 17:25No.24485335
Why did he specifically choose october 7 as the release date bros? Seems meaningful
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Anon06/21/25, 18:55No.24485549
Pynchon is shit
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Anon06/21/25, 19:09No.24485596
I was Pynchon one off a little while ago
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Anon06/21/25, 19:11No.24485601
buy an ad Tom
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Anon06/21/25, 19:27No.24485644
Is Gravity's Rainbow genuinely worth reading guys?
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Anon06/21/25, 21:46No.24485962
Reading Crying of Lot 49 again after Gravity's Rainbow and it's no where near the same level. Ill check out Mason and Dixon sometime but I'm afraid I wont as much as GR because of the old timey setting which Im not a huge fan of
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Anon06/23/25, 24:04No.24488701
I’m usually a massive Pynchhead but I’m finding it impossible to get into Against the Day. I tried the audiobook (the voice is silly and the audio is mixed poorly), as well as reading the first few chapters over and over. But I can’t get into it. Is it because it’s steampunk? Help, /lit/bros, I want to read Pynchon’s entire corpus before he dies.
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Anon06/23/25, 04:08No.24489098
He sux
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Anon06/24/25, 24:01No.24491269
Still blows my mind how different Gravity's Rainbow and Bleeding Edge were. Maybe I should re-read the latter