Why do you like Pynchon?

>>9831991
>What am I missing?

a brain and good taste

sage!

>>9832108
Too many 16-year-olds on this board

>>9831991
>going to a prose stylist for the plot
>going to a prose stylist for the characters
>going to a prose stylist for anything but prose

You're reading for the wrong things, friendo. Pynchon is good because his prose is good, and because he comes up with genuinely funny shit, which is hard to do on the page. He also applies tools like stream-of-consciousness very effectively to scenarios they weren't originally designed for (see the "kenosha kid" section of GR). It's about the beauty of it all.

>>9832908
this

and that selection of 4 books is rather unfortunate, even though the first two aren't bad in their own way you haven't read any of his best

>>9832908
>prose stylist
>best part of his books are characters and scene development
his prose is just okay. his appeal is in his ludicrous scenarios.

>>9831991
>loosely connects a hodgepodge of themes

I disagree. He has very discernible themes with obvious messages to them.

I agree that his characters are cartoons, but if you want to give Pynchon one more shot, read Mason & Dixon for a genuinely moving friendship.

>>9833021
This I will do

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>>9833007
>his prose is just okay

A-and we have a pleb

>>9833343
>carrots meme
you tell yourself that. pynchon is a cartoonist. not a prose stylist. his ability is to render warner bros cartoons. i wouldnt doubt that very meme you just used was created by the pynch himself.