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>Russia
>Huge aristocracy
>noble ruski falls in love with qt peasant
>war breaks
>war ends and there's peace
>noble and qt marry, Stalin blesses them, they run towards fields and achieve transcendence through quotidian tasks

>>8777522
Top kek.
Ty m8.

>>8777522

>Two friends go out to get drunk
>One is a Jew, the other is paranoid as fuck he'll do something shift
>So many vignettes and random sequences I may as well be reading something Bunuel wrote
>LOL IRISH HUMOUR
>Catholicisms
>It ends with someone getting fucked on a hill and having an orgasm

>>8777284
Congrats, you found out that pynch is a hack

>>8777284
how did you get sirens of titan out of this? also, it's not that good, Pynchon's range is either incredible to forgettably mediocre to outright bad and boring. With every artist that produces a work or a few that cause major shifts in the landscape, there's always a large section of his/her audience that won't admit they produce bad work too (for example, look at all the Kubrick fans that think his adaptation of Lolita is good).

I really don't think you can judge Pynchon without reading his two best works. Gravity's Rainbow & Mason & Dixon are on a whole different level. I do hope that if you're interested in the hype you give those a chance. They're really good.

>>8777308

Just the feel of the flow of the novel's aimless plot and 'quirky' writing style

to tell op that he is a faggot

The philosophy of bantz

If you take shit seriously, you're gonna get butthurt

Sexual impotence twisted into reactionary political nihilism/tribalistic internal crisis brought into a contradictory forum.

go on a bender immediately and smash out a first draft.

>>8776921
When you say go on a bender you mean get drunk?

>>8776916
1. plot is least important
2. get good

>>8776727
>buying books

>>8776737
>1997

>>8776727
Yes

>>8776548
I would recommend that you read Cloud Atlas first, it's a great start even if it was meant to be a prequel.

gay porn

>>8776548
Great beginning, flat characters, interesting ideas, 40 pages monologue, Who is John Galt?, lots of railroads and steel, kindoff a politics game. Ayn Rands wet dream basically.

He started smoking the day he heard that could kill him.

he woke up with the pillow in his feet.

>>8776495
"I have rights. I have read the constitution," he slurs. "I have a right to free speech."

>>8776403
michael gira >:D

>>8776015
Not worth reading entirely.

I selectively read Politics and that was too much already.

>>8776024
>>8776020
I have 2200 pages worth of reading ahead of me and I'm not sure where to begin. I'm aware that a large part of his work is just him shitting on sophists and doing pseudo natural science which I do find intriguing, but even with that said it's still gonna be difficult to go through even half of it.

>>8775869
Sasha sokolov was born in Canada

Read Wacousta. Also, check out Margaret Atwood.

>>8775869
Alice Munro is the best living author

>t. Norm

But really, Anne Carson is brilliant

Depends what she's like.
And also I wouldn't.

Stefan George
Baudelaire
Rilke
the holy trinity

>>8775529
early bird get that worm

>>8775524
Round the Malvern Hills area if anyone is interested/if anyone knows any other shit that went down there

>>8775524
Washington killed drunk German Mercenaries during Christmas

There's a lot of experimental poetry and experimental hip hop that comes from here.

Twin Cities

I like to reread Oblomov when the weather outside is frightful.

>>8775650
what if the fire is so delightful?

>>8775702
blaze it

is that a disguised feels guy on the cover? holy...

how was it? ive only ever read Rant and it was ok but now i feel like his books are just edgy teen core

>>8774754
if you look at it upside down its an ugly woman

>>8774182
I was read to as a kid.
I don't remember when I started myself, but school libraries definitely helped.

>>8774182
3. I was a late bloomer I know.
Glad I didn't wait until 5 though, after that its hopeless

I started reading around 4 I believe. Macbeth was my first book but I didn't understand it well and I was scared. Didn't shy away from books anyway.