You're telling me Pynchon has been imitating his dead Cornell

why don't you read it and find out, retard

I've been waiting to see if a thread about this ever came up. I started it but had already read too much Pynchon Kerouac and Burroughs for it to seem fresh. I never finished it. Maybe if I was still in college it would've enticed me more.

I'm sure Farina was a swell guy however.

I fuckin love it, I'm also a fan of The Farinas music though, so I come to it with a bias

Not really Pynchonian except in the overlap of 60's counterculture and the sense of humor that goes with that. It's definetely a young person's book, but I don't think you'd have to be young to enjoy it. Young once, maybe.

I'm inclined to compare it to Emmett Grogan's Ringlevio: fictionalized counterculture autobiography where the main character is the coolest cat around and does drugs and courts girlies and speaks t-r-u-t-h ETC yet where Ringolevio was near insufferable for its selfseriousness and selfrighteousness Been Down So Long laughs behind the back of its own faux-cool Quixote and pokes holes in his lifestyle.

(of course the comparison is very silly as Farina was an entertainer and Grogan an activist and Been Down is a novel while Ringolevio makes claims of memoir...)

>>8805413
Ok. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

It's funny

>>8805171
lmao looking at the name of the main character in that book. I think it's safe to assume OP is correct.

>>8807405
not really, gnossos papadopulis is greek

>>8805171
It's not really the same as Pynchon at his apex. It's basically a wacky semi-autobiographical 60s era campus novel with some dark overtones.