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Blackvegetable » 28 Jan 2025, 10:46 am » wrote: ↑

28 Jan 2025, 10:46 am

If you want to understand the root of @*VegasVagina's bitterness, this is where it began...

@*VegasVagina asked me to recommend a novel by Thomas Pynchon, America's Shakespeare...

So I explain that most readers find his big books overwhelming...but a few of his smaller works are quite "accessible"...and I think I recommend Vineland.

Being @*VegasVagina, he insisted on The Big Game.....the Everest of post ww2 American fiction. For a sense of what a monument Gravity's Rainbow is, read the story of its Pulitzer nomination.

Pulitzer Jurors Dismayed on Pynchon

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/08/arch ... roid-share

900 pgs...the book is a Beast..

@*VegasVagina didn't get past the 1st paragraph.

Try it here
 
https://www.tumblr.com/thatfirstpage/49 ... as-pynchon

Why mention it(other than to illustrate what a cretinous **** @*VegasVagina is, of course)?

Paul Thomas Anderson is taking a second crack at Pynchon. This time with Vineland.

https://www.gq.com/story/paul-thomas-andersons-vineland

I'd read the book first.