Just finished pic related, should I read Gravity's Raindbow or Inherent Vice next?
Read V next. It's even better than Crying of Lot 49 and not a mindfuck like GR is (apparently, I haven't read it).
>>9938208
Haven't read V or GR?
>>9938198
Read anything but Bleeding Edge and it'll be better than Lot 49.
>>9938208
V. is closer to GR than any other Pynchon novel imo
>>9938198
Taste the rainbow.
I went cr49 then inherent vice. Inherent vice is easy and fun and funny. The pta movie is comfy and dope as well.
>>9938228
Wrong
>>9938228
holy shit i never thought I'd see a comment this W R O N G
Thots on reeding BLEEDING EDGE furst? I woz givin it as a gift
>>9938198
Did you like it?
>>9938919
I think that'd be fine. It may be underwhelming to people who have read Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon but for an old geezer writing about the internet and the culture of the early 2000s it's alright.
Just don't expect a cyberthriller ala William Gibson, it kind of loses steam around halfway through and just keeps going. It's hard not to treat Pynchon novels something like puzzles, they lack the good pacing of better commercial writers and some of the most interesting aspects are tangential and without any textual closure.
Overall it's like listening to a band's reunion album before any of their classics. Don't write Pynchon off entirely if you don't like it.
>>9938198
V, then GR.
>>9938198
Fuck the jews
>>9938198
you should tear out the pages and use to wipe when you are on the toilet
>>9938198
I don't want to be a pretentious cunt, but only plebs don't read books by an author in chronological order. So if you haven't read V. do it (it's less trippy than TCoL49 but more fun, epic and beautiful) and only then read GR