>fell for the meme and started reading pic related >have

Once you finish part one it becomes an actual narrative, instead of a grab bag of scenes.
Use this if you aren't.
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/rainbow.htm

>>9319130
aren't what

>>9319146
Aren't following dumass.

>>9319130

nice sentence fragment, dweeb

>>9319068
Just keep reading Anon. GR is honestly not as bad as it's made out to be, you'll pick it up, plus it gets a lot easier and even becomes essentially linear for a couple hundred pages once you get to the Hermann Casino. V. is harder, desu

>>9319190

You are truly a faggot, and I'm not even the guy you're correcting.

>>9319146
>>9319190
You will never make it through the book.

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>>9319068
I majored in aerospace engineering, will I stand a better chance of understanding the pynch?

>>9319274
There's like two or three chapters that either obliquely or (briefly, and) directly reference specific aerospace engineering (differential) equations. The technical stuff is really not the main obstacle to be surmounted.

You may enjoy a couple of the math puns more since you're probably pretty fluent in surface integrals, etc and he does riff on those a bit.

So, not really, but you may marginally enjoy it more than someone who has know mathematical background. I did my undergrad in electrical engineering and felt like it wasn't that big of an asset for this book.

I used to think that difficult books were difficult because I was an idiot...I mean, it may be still be the case but it's more comforting to think that they were written that way for a reason. It's exactly as impenetrable and oblique as pynchon wanted it to be. It's not like 'smart' people comprehend it like an orwell book or something (not knocking orwell by any means, he just has a very smooth and coherent writing style).
It's supposed to be a challenge.

>>9319068
he was on acid the entire time he wrote it.

>>9319991
I don't know if you've ever tried LSD but do you understand how unlikely that is

>>9319146
>>9319190
Pynchon is not for you, friendo.

tired of saying this

things dont make sense, because war dont make no sense

things are crazy? well guess what else is pretty crazy? war

a little surreal 4 ya? let me tell you about the most surreal enterprise mankind ever thought up

get it through your thick skuls

>>9320232
Why not

>>9320260
Cause if you can't parse a single sentence fragment without reflexively scoffing you won't make it through more than 20 pages of most Pynchon works, where they, and many other grammatical oddities, abound

>>9320246
We're reaching pleb levels I didn't know existed.

>>9320246
You have to leave

>>9320420
abound where? finish your sentences you dumbass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CefAQpu5B68

>>9320823
... most Pynchon works, where they, and many other grammatical oddities, abound
>remove first parenthetical clause
... most Pynchon works, where they abound
>Oh, look! A subject and a predicate!

Pinecone probably isn't going to suit you

>>9321456
He's fucking with you anon. You're a fish.

>>9319149
>dumass

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>>9320429
>>9320445
Not the anon you replied to, but based on your replies, it seems you've worked out the point(s) and signifigance of the novel well enough. I myself was totally nonplussed by it, and was annoyed throughout. In short, I just didn't get it. Maybe I'm stupid, or avant-garde stuff isn't my forte. I'm more into Faulkner or Alice Munro.

It would be a huge help if you told me your inputs and held my hand for it. And none of this "well, if you don't know then I can't tell you."

Being legit here, too, not retarding to be pretended.

>>9319149
This is a thread about Pynchon, not Dumas. Keep it on topic please.