How do these three tomes stack up against each other? Best of

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ask bloomio

characterisation and comfyness = M&D
overall fun time with decent characterisation = AtD
crazy mind-altering experience but little characterisation = GR

I'm reading Against the Day and it's pretty darn good. I'm leaning towards GR next because it's his most known masterpiece. M&D's prose seems really transcendent, but requires very careful, slow reading.

Haven't read MD but was disappointed by AtD after GR.

>>9885069
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
Against the Day
But it's closer than you'd think. There are days when my order flips, and others when I can't decide. They're all masterpieces in their own way, and I love each one for different reasons. They're all so good that when people ask me for my top 10 favorite novels I feel embarrassed, 3 are Pynchon.

>>9886008
for what reason?

>>9886011
What's the appeal of each?

ATD is the best imo. Least difficult of the 3 i.e. most enjoyable. It's a fun on a page-by-page basis and has a bit of everything. Combines the historical fiction of M&D (without the 18th c diction) and the vastness of GR (without the oppressiveness and fractured narrative)

i wish there were more authors like pynchon.

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>>9885069

Only read V, GR, M&D if you're masochistic and/or an English major

>>9888270
I've only read CoL49. I thought it was funny as fuck, but by the end of the book I just felt confused about what the fuck I just read.

>>9888751
Welcome to Pynchon, enjoy your stay.

>>9888795
M&D is one of the best things I've ever read so I'd put it at the top, one of the most intimate friendships I've ever seen in literature.

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>>9888270
>the Penguin error meme again

Plebs trying to justify not owning the aesthetic as fuck Miller cover

>>9888253
While I have other favourite authors, Pynchon keeps taking the cake. There's just nobody else like him. And I don't even mean stylistically like him -- I mean in a sense of taking huge fucking risks.

>>9889750
which one is the Miller?

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>>9885797
who?

Reading Mason and Dixon and Against the Day in tandem deadass

gr > md > atd in all regards imo

>>9890637
even characterization?

>>9889750
> aesthetic
> Miller

keep telling yourself the typos have been fixed

only GR copies worth owning are the blue and the orange covers

>>9890629
you got a problem with bloomio?

>>9890694
I saw a copy in chapters were pg149 was fixed

>>9890694
The meme is old. I have the Miller and the errors are fixed. They've been fixed for years now.

M&D>GR>>AtD

>>9891745
too bad that book is ugly as fuck

>>9886929
DUDE

I finished AtD a few weeks ago and I think it has the best ending paragraph on any Pynchon book

>>9885069
Mason & Dixon > Gravity's Rainbow > Against the Day

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it's time to stop

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holy fuck

>>9893878
he's a LITTLE SNEAKY MAN LIKE A SNAKE OUTTA A CAN

>>9893912
S E Z

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>>9885976
So does that mean MD and AtD don't have that same shattered, kaleidoscopic vision GR had? I was hoping it would.

>>9894761
They are more on-rails and less psychedelic if that's what you mean

AtD is the worst, the other two are de gustibus.

>>9892634
AtD>>M&D>>>>GR

>>9895888
nah

>>9895503
arguable. AtD has more straightforward prose out of the three, but you still have a huge collection of characters and places with stuff like a guy getting dynamited into another dimension and stuff

>>9895906
AtD for me is a perfect level of challenging, I'm not hardheaded enough to want to go back to the other two - at least not at my current reading ability. (had to quit GR after 200pgs)

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>>9895888
agreed. Nice taste.

>>9895906
Depends what you value. I prefer lucid understanding to high-level prose, so naturally I tend towards atd.

>>9896118
GR isn't difficult to comprehend

AtD is a cakewalk 500 pages in, I don't know why people say it's so difficult

It took my 5 years and several attempts to finish GR, but it is his masterpiece without question.

>>9896202
dey iz returd