>read a Pynchon novel >have absolutely no idea what is

You are unworthy

Seriously though the Egypt sequence in V is fucking confusing as hell

I unironically didn't think much of TCoL49.

>>9210970
>/tv/ brainlets

Being confused and disoriented is part of the intentional effect. You CAN come to understand, but that's immediately important.

>>9210970
Read them again, you'll get more out of them. Or just stop wasting your time and read some Dickens.

Also this: http://pynchonwiki.com/

>>9211197
not immediately* I meant.

>>9211039
preterite, I cast thee unelect from my sight

post some passages which puzzle you, I'll aid you if I can. I only know GR M&D and 49

>>9210970
Honestly I think Pynchon is overrated. Not trying to be Mr. Hot Opinions over here but every novel of his I read seems insubstantial and unsatisfactory. His books are like Saturday morning cartoons for smart people. Entertaining; harmless; meaningless. I can't believe there are people who seriously think he deserves to win the Nobel Prize.

>>9211058
It's not that great. He does everything he does there in a far more intense and interesting fashion in GR.

>>9211220
I can't relate to anybody who looks at books like V. or GR and goes 'Unsubstantial, meaningless, unsatisfactory". That's a sign, to me, of someone who is too far up their ass. Perhaps they're not literary formulas for some abstract, but what they are is enough and is apparently remarkable.

>>9211224
TCoL49 is pretty great on it's own imo. He does similar stuff on larger scales in other places but 49 benefits from its novella size a lot. It is very succinct.