Imagine going to the bookstore to buy this in 1997. It's

>>8776727
>buying books

>>8776737
>1997

>>8776727
Yes

>>8776727
yeah it's really good. I think of it as a master just flexing his muscle. I'll show you what I can do sorta thing.

>>8776746
Just rob them nigga

so is the book any good?

>tfw Uni library has a 10/10 hardcover edition of M&D

I want to steal it so bad.

>>8776727
No

>>8777209
explain, fool?

>>8776737
DUDE FREE STUFF XD

Some of us are grown adults with good jobs and not shitty college freshman, m8.

Anyway, OP, M&D is my legit favorite novel of all time. It's magnificent. I think it's one of the greatest novels ever written.

>>8776727
I read this a few months ago. I wish I had read it in 1997. I actually remember seeing it for sale back then, I guess because the cover is unusually distinct.

>>8776953
you can get brand new hc version off amazon for like 10 bones.

>>8776727
I'm currently reading Vineland. It's my first Pynchon novel. Why is it considered a disappointment?

>>8776857
one of the greatest books I've ever.

>>8777371
that's how good he is. that his lesser books seem good by pleb standards

>>8777292
I also remember seeing this book way before I had even heard about Pynchon. I had heard of the Mason and Dixon line in US history and I thought it would some sort of boring biographical slog of how they plotted the line and all that

If only if only

>>8777287
>Some of us are grown adults with good jobs and not shitty college freshman, m8.

Oh do books stop being free when this happens?

>>8776737
buying books is a categorical imperative you fucking shit

>>8777389
No but they become well within your budget, pleb....

>>8776727
I really can't imagine this is better than gravity's rainbow but I'll take everyone's word for it.

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>>8776737
>not supporting your favorite authors

>reading Pynchon

>>8777881
to intelligence for you?

I've read 600 pages of this in 5 days. The guy has some fucking wild imagination. It's my first Pynchon, what should I read next? I'm thinking about "Against The Day".

>>8777287
Some of us are even more grown adults who's wife has told us that we dont have room for another library.

>>8778343
Gravity's Rainbow, if you havent read that one

>>8778350
>old
> horrible gramer

>>8778350
>falling for the marriage meme
I bet you also have fallen for the cuckoldry meme.

>>8776727
Easily my favorite of his, though I haven't read AtD or Vineland yet. I love the end when papa pynchon relinquishes his intellectual distance and exposes his sentimental side. If you didn't tear up a bit at the final chapters, something is probably wrong with you

>>8777371
because half the book are cringe worthy shills speaking like idiots on 4chan

It's also stylistically not very impressive but I get what he's doing thematically and it's not bad at all. Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge are much better.

>>8776953
honestly go to any library book sale and you'll probably get a hardcover for a dollar, ive gotten multiple for friends that way.

>>8777371
Vineland is really fucking good, /lit only hates it bc Bloom didn't like it. There is one part he really shouldve dropped (the mall robbery thing towards the end)

>>8776953
you'd be within your rights.

>>8777879
>reading authors that are still alive
Protip: the momey does not go to the author, you naive fucking retard, it goes to some rich jew.

>>8779353
Wrong board

Posts that misunderstand royalties/capitalism or mindlessly regurgitate alt-right sentiments should be posted on pol

I don't have to imagine it, I did.
Guess which book I'd just finished reading.

>>8776953
I saw a stack of them in a remaindered bookshop recently, hardback, £3 each.

>>8778350
So buy books legitimately on Kindle or something you pleb poorfag.

>>8779353
How do authors make money then?