Why do you guys like him so much?

every book is like opening a can of snakes that pop out

We don't like him, but we like being thought of as intellectuals

lel

because his literature is entertaining and he is an interesting person.

>I need story and character

Ah, the cry of the turbopleb.

"I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained." - Based John Hawkes

Because he wrote the only real novel in history, all other novels are fakes and wrote solely to prevent people from reading his

i dont think people think of pynchon as intellectual, just clever maybe

>postmodernist
Oh god I'm having another stroke asssdhagdjasgdenjszkzxios

he’s like your weird smart cousin that you fear might be a pedo and then realize he’s a permanent limp

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

classic

i know this is a shitpost, but I dropped Inherent Vice basically for this reason.

Because Pinecone's writing is the closest thing to Hieronymous Bosch's paintings.

mine too user

>totality of vision or structure was really all that remained
fake and gay as fuck

scat porn. any other response is a lie

that's Joys you silly

He's ugly like me.

Guaranteed you've never read any Hawkes, loser. Reddit is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that way

Pedophilia tho

He writes genreshit but he uses enough complicated language that it becomes elevated to high literature and so you're allowed to like a book about someone being locked in a rocket and shot into space by nazis without people looking down on you.

See also: Wolfe, McCarthy

Like Zizek and DFW he's just such a strange personality you have to marvel at him.

Joyce liked farting. Scat porn is in Gravity's Rainbow.

Because he writes middlebrow fiction that uses big words and references outre subjects so I can pretend i'm elite

It’s called ptosis, retard