Thomas Pynchon power rankings itt: I'll start 1. Mason

I'll just rank the ones I've read.

1. Bleeding Edge
2. Inherent Vice
...
3. Gravity's Rainbow

8. Mason & Dixon
8. V.
8. Gravity's Rainbow
8. Against the Day
8. TCoL49
8. Inherent Vice
8. Bleeding Edge
8. Vineland

>>8076562
reading is hard, huh?

1. mason and dixon
2. gravity's rainbow
3. v
4. against the day
5. the crying of lot 49
6. Inherent vice
7. vineland
8. bleeding edge

Shit, shit, and more shit

Rating what I've read:

1. Mason & Dixon
2. Bleeding Edge
3. Inherent Vice
4. TCoL 49

alright yOU FUCKINg PLEbS

1. AGAINST THE FUCKING DAY
2. gRAVITY'S rAiNbOw
3. IN HERENT ~VICE~
4. mASON & DIX IN
5. CRYING OF LOT WHORETY NINE
6. V (FOR VENFETTA)
7. bLEEDiNG ehdge
8. vineland

>>8076601
>rates inherent vice above mason and dixon
>calls other people plebs

oh I am laffin

M&D is the pseud choice

GR > V > L49 >>>>>>>>>>>>

>>8076506
V.
Inherent Vice
tCoL49

>>8076628
lol it's funny how shitposters who pretend to have read M&D call it shitty when literally one year ago it was the patrician opinion on /lit/ to consider it better than GR, which was at that time considered the pseud choice. It's like this place is an endless cycle of reactionary idiocy

>>8076636
Against the day is due to be claimed as the patrician option

>GR
>V.
>M&D
>AD
>LOT49
>ALL LITE PYCHIN

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>>8076506
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. TCoL49

Need to read more Pinecone t b h

Pinecone will never write anything better than GR, he was high as fuck while writing it and can't get as high/fucked up anymore because he's old

>>8076645
Can't wait till we get to Vineland and Slow Learner as the Patrician choices.

>>8076623
>he only read IV once
>he didn't understand the layered subtext
>he doesn't understand how it is more culturally relevant to the post-modern life than mason

>>8076709
oh please enlighten me on this 'layered subtext'

>>8076570
Reading shitty books IS hard.

>>8076636
Nah man, I've read M&D and I actually like it, I just get sick of the board bandwagoning on opinions like that. M&D is just a way toned down and conventional Pynchon and I guess it just bothers me how /lit/ is always trying to be one step ahead of everyone else by denying the sheer fun and genius of Pynchon's early experimental phase

>>8076506
>1. Mason & Dixon
Stopped reading there. Nice shitpost

>>8077053
Agreed

>>8076623
This

What fucking pleb puts IV over M&D

Hysterical

1- Mason & Dixon
2- VII (Gravity's Rainbow)
3- V
4- IV
5- Bleeding Edge
6- TCol49
7- Vineland

>>8076506

1. Against the Day
2. Mason & Dixon
3. V.
4. Gravity's Rainbow
5. TCoL49
6. Inherent Vice
7. Vineland
8. Bleeding Edge

>there are people on /lit/ who rate V. higher than Gravity's Rainbow

Mason & Dixon is number one, followed closely by Gravity's Rainbow. None of the others come close to these two.

>>8076803
do your own homework, lad. :^)

>>8078218
people who rate v. higher than gravity's rainbow boggle my mind too

1. GR
2. M&D
3. TCoL49
4. BE
4. IV

I'm reading Vineland next.

>>8076506
fuck off with that shit
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Mason & Dixon
3. Bleeding Edge
4. Vineland
5. V.
6. The Crying of Lot 49
7. Slow Learner
8. Against The Day
9. Inherent Vice
dont be mad hombre

>>8078218
"Against the Day" is his masterwork.

>>8077053
Inherent Vice was first published in 2009..

>>8078229
That's what I thought

>>8076658
Orly, bitch?

Great:
M&D
GR

Enjoyable airport reading:
IV
Vineland
AtD

Not worth reading:
V.
TCoL49
BE
SL

>>8079762
Great:
not you

Faggot:
You

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1. Is it OK to be a Luddite?
2. Mason & Dixon
3. Inherent Vice
4. Gravity's Rainbow
5. Bleeding Edge
6. Vineland
7. V
8. Against the Day
9. The Crying of Lot 49
10. Slow Learner

>>8079762
>Airport reading
>Against the Day

Please tell us more about what an unbridled genius you are, anon.

>>8076694
I don't get the Vineland hate, it's better than TCoL49

>>8079880
no it is not

1. Vineland
2. The Crying of Lot 49
3. V.
4. Mason and Dixon
5. Inherent Vice
6. Gravity's Rainbow
7. Against the Day

I haven't read Bleeding Edge yet.

>>8080055
good taste

GR > tinychat / 4chanlit IMO

>>8080055
>>8080060
good samefag

>>8079877
I too become retarded the second I enter an airport

1. Mason & Dixon
2. Bleeding Edge
3. Crying of Lot 49

>>8080099
referring to those books as airport meaning intentionally undercuts their significance as literary works, and is the type of content an actual moron would make

>>8079823
Sorry for your bad taste dood
>>8079877
Don't see a problem with classifying it that way.

>>8080127
sorry for your stupidity dood

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1. Against the Day
2. Mason & Dixon
3. Inherent Vice
4. TCoL49
5. Gravity's Rainbow
6. Vineland
7. V
8. Slow Learner
9. Bleeding Edge

>>8079877
the only pinecone i have seen read in public was on a transatlantic flight when a dude next to me was reading against the day

>>8080141
You've almost gotten to a point. Maybe we should keep going.

>>8080112
AtD us breezy as fuck.

Top 3

1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Infinite Jest
3. House of Leafs

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>>8080112
You know what DFW read at airports?

Infinite Jets.

>>8080671
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