14 Apr 2026 10:07 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.
https://archive.liberalforum.net/p/587280
won the Oscar for Best Picture..