>Go to uni library >Tell myself "No more Pynchon,

I can't read anything normal since I finished Ulysses and it sucks because I wasnt that well read before going into it and now all classics seem phony to me

>>9269928
read Proust

>>9269928
Read Tristram Shandy and FW

>>9269938
>>9269947

Already started GR, and I dont understand what the fuck is going on 70% of the time

>>9269982
Don't disregard Tristram Shandy btw.
What page are you on anon? And don't let that discourage you. Here's a very simple page that sort of summarizes what is happening. Don't let it ware you down, have fun with it. You're not a stupid piece of shit.
https://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/rainbow.htm

>>9269995
>Don't disregard Tristram Shandy btw.
I will probably forget the name but I know I can google Schopenhauer favorite books and it will show up
>What page are you on anon?
41 from the penguin deluxe edition
>inb4 you got kike'd that edition is fucked up
already checked and it is fine
>And don't let that discourage you.
Nah, I'm fine, it just seems like today is one of those days that I just don't want to read
Started writing tho, I dont know if it will go anywhere
> Here's a very simple page that sort of summarizes what is happening.
mmm thanks, I don't like guides, I think they kill the fun but it seems necessary now, it was sometimes with Ulysses, at least the first time I tried to read it
> Don't let it ware you down, have fun with it. You're not a stupid piece of shit.
I think the main problem is that english is not my native language and this is the first non-translated novel I'm reading
And yeah, I may not be full retarded but it feels bad to know I will never be on Pynchon or Joyce's level, what the fuck is it with the brains of these two

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>>9269819
>study at a technical university
>Libraries have no literature only textbooks

Literary equivalent of a sweettooth

>>9269982
The first 200 pages are the hardest.

>>9269819
that what you get for falling for the memes
the only meme you should fall for is the greeks, and it is because it isnt actually a meme

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>>9269819
>please let this be a normal story
>with the Pynch, no way!

new novel when

>>9270102
I went to a private school so I did actually start with the Greeks
But I wasnt really cognizant about how important they were so I just passively absorbed it
Do you mean Plato and stuff or the myths?

>>9270504
>I went to a private school so I did actually start with the Greeks
But I wasnt really cognizant about how important they were so I just passively absorbed it

actually same, but I really think I need to go back again
>Do you mean Plato and stuff or the myths?
both are important

>>9270513
>I need to go back again
I meant go back to the greeks

>>9269995
>people actually being nice and not assholes in /lit/
what is going on

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>>9270102
>t:^)w you tell someone to start with the greeks and they think you mean plato and aristotle

>>9270547
>t:^)w
what did he mean by this

>>9270049
where would one find schopenhauer's favorite books? couldn't find it with a google search.

>>9270607
try a bing search

>>9270609
oh anon. i am in dire straits to find this information please if you could bear yourself to assist me

>>9270620
i dont know man i just searched the book that guy told me about and it said in the wiki article and schop liked it a lot, among with don quixote and other 2 books i dont remember

People say Col49 is pretty difficult, but i didn't find it hard at all. Did i miss out on a lot, or is the difficulty exaggerated?

>>9270629
I think you might just be a genius

>>9270626
much appreciated thank you

>>9270651
I mean, what is supposed to be so difficult about it?
I can only think of one passage where i was kind of confused for a bit (with the sailor and the bed), but that was about it.
And i thought his prose would pop more than it did, from passages i've read from GR and M&D which were absolutely beautiful.

>>9270629
No. It's really just a forethought to what he seriously begins to consider in GR wrt Slothrop and the V2.

>>9270683
Ok cool, i'm pretty excited to begin GR, but i think i'll keep it in my backlog a bit longer for the time being.

>>9270629
can you explain The Courier's Tragedy to me then?

>>9270697
Define "explain"

>>9270629
>>9270697
>>9270706
>pretending to understand stuff on /lit/

your existence is sad and pathetic

>>9270718
anon btfo!!