Will this be harder to read than Infinite Jest?

Yes and yes

>>8355089

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>>8355102

this comment shows how postmodernism is actually just an abortion of modernism that needs to end

>>8355113
>ate the pasta

>>8355089
Yes, and you should, but Pinecone can be overwhelming to just jump into, so I'd recommend you start off with The Crying of Lot 49 just so you'll not be taken entirely off guard by the sorts of things he does.

it's completely seperate from IJ
it's not a 'step up' or 'the next step' or anything
it is a different book
will it be harder to read? maybe, probably

please de-memify pynchon
he is a good author unlike dfw

>>8355089

I read the book and couldn't get into it. I put that book firmly in the average category of literature I've read. I honestly don't see what all the great reviews are about.

>>8356834

this.

But tbqh, you should probably read Pynchon after getting a foundation in classic World, English, and American lit and modernist lit.

i.e, aim at reading Homer, Milton, Shakespeare, Sterne, Melville, and Joyce, in something like that order, first.

The whole "I'm going to go straight for the postmodern doorstoppers!" thing is really stupid. You'll get significantly less out of it, not that GR doesn't stand on its own and you couldn't go through it and not get something out of it.

>>8355089
It's a much more rewarding book than ij. You should find it exhilarating to read, not draining.