Opinions? Is it better than IJ?

>>7653340
They're both memes. They only appeal to 20 year old white upper middle class male college students.

>>7653344
Go back to tumblr faggot

>>7653340
Yes.

Which is a low bar, but yea, GR > IJ.

>>7653349
>20 year old white upper middle class male college student detected

You're so deep for reading a meme author

>>7653354
No ones talking about being "deep" except you

>>7653360
Because I actually read proper literature and know what is embarrassing sophomoric trash

>>7653366
This is anonymous board, you don't need to try and impress anyone here :^)

>>7653344
>They're both memes
Everything is a meme. If by meme you mean /lit/ talks about it a lot, well yes, but its irrelevant

>>7653344
wew lad.

>>7653366
WEW LAD

I haven't read either but I think infinite jest is better

>>7653423
trust me on this btw, i'm a college freshman

>>7653431
I should also specify that I am a white (Anglo Saxon) male

>>7653441
>>7653431
>>7653423
>>7653344
Samefag

Don't even compare to IJ. Totally different books in every single way.

Yes though, it's in my top 3 books of all time with Illuminatus and Paradise Llost

GR is an experimental counterculture epic
Infinite Jest is a conservative self help book rendered by a very clever University professor

i enjoy both

>>7653451
This guy is some kinda Genius

>>7653340
Is a seventy-five usd first edition copy worth it?

>>7653340
Yes.
>>7654829
Assuming it's real and in decent condition, you could probably resell it for a lot more than that.

>>7653454
This is rather accurate.

>>7653454
>Infinite Jest
>Conservative
Really? if that's true I may have to reevaluate my years of shit posting it.

>>7654870
It's conservative in that it's anti-drug and there are a couple of characters who use the word nigger(s).

>>7654870
DFW was a pretty big Conservative and the book is all family values and God and hard work.

>>7654921
>the book is all family values and God and hard work.
what is greater than this

>>7654926
weed and sex and classical guitar

>>7653451
>>7653473
Samefag

>>7654932
I like you

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>>7653454
>Illuminatus and Paradise Lost

Mein neger. I'm excited to read GR over the summer, but do you think I need to read V. and Mason & Dixon first?

>>7655049
Probably not. Definitely not. Though m and d is my favorite Pynchon.

>>7654932
you. i like you.

>>7653366
>proper literature
Are you that one guy who keeps masturbating to Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf?

>>7655049
V. helps. Mason and Dixon was written like 20 years later, so no.

>>7655049
No way man, that's bogus shitposting from people who want to keep GR elitist and unread

you don't have to prepare anything - i've gotten some non reader friends to tackle it, and it's not easy, but you can do it as long as you're enjoying yourself

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>>7653366
Bet you subvocalize too

>>7655095
pynchon's books beg subvocalization
stop this meme

I got high on shrooms a couple times during the month and a half it took me to finish GR and it helped a lot.

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>>7655069
The Mason and Dixon part is, but reading V. first does legitimately help.

>>7653344
So, the best society has to offer? I don't see the problem here.

>>7654964
Oh, silly meta 4chan

>>7655123
On my second read through of GR I read part of the last section on shrooms and it was extremely difficult to follow. I was loving every individual sentence and underlining all sorts of shit but at the end of every page had no idea what I read

>>7655160
>>7655160
fucking this
I'll never get "le 20 year old white male xDD". It is the most perfect human there is

>>7655160
Almost. White working-class to middle-class males make the best artists.

>>7654879
>anti-drug
I don't think so, that would be over-simplistic, and in an obvious way.

>>7655172
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>>7655057
Samefag

>>7656081
>calling out samefagging
You. I like you.