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In my group of friends nobody reads Pynchon, and those that do read him call him a leftist shill. There are leftist aspects to Pynchon but he is far more complex than left vs right.
If he were to examine the 2016 US election he would've probably hated both candidates. Trump for his immigration policies and Hillary for her pay for play schemes and shady ties to big business.
So what's your top 5 Pynchon?
I'll begin:
1. Against The Day - Epic and Underrated
2. Gravity's Rainbow
3. Mason and Dixon
4. Inherent Vice - Not usual Pynchon but funny as anything and engaging. Not all Pynchon has to be the deconstruction of systems.
5. Crying Lot of 49.
V is wildly overrated (I'm baffled by the amount of praise it gets. Good yes, but best Pynchon? Only because it is short does it get the praise), and Slow Learner is frankly rubbish.
Looking forward to your opinions goys.
Also, does anyone think he has got any more books left in him?
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Only Read CoL49, IV, V, and I'm halfway through GR right now. So far I'm finding GR to be a much easier read than V. Looking forward to reading M&D next and then probably AtD if I'm not all Pynch'd out.
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>>9872521
yeah haha *rips bong* like, Pynchon would totally have been a Bernie Bro like us!
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>>9872521
I agree with your top 3. Frankly, I find AtD the most enjoyable among his 3 masterpieces.
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Best way to get into Pynchon is to read Col49, then AtD (it's not too difficult), then move onto the harder stuff (M&D, V, GR)
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>>9873691
how does AtD compare with GR and in what ways is it superior? genuinely curious.
same questiob to OP.
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>>9873695
I actually started via Bleeding Edge since it was about an era I lived through and so more familiar, then Inherent Vice since it had a similar size/style.
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>>9874173
Quite simply, in generic terms AtD has more moments of brilliance than GR does. It also more complex, yet also funnier at the same time. I also prefer the mature writing style of P: it is more "top-down" than the almost stream of consciousness over the shoulder of GR (which I still like)
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>>9872521
Mason & Dixon
Gravity's Rainbow
V
The Crying of Lot 49
Against the Day
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