So now that you've read the first page of mason and dixon why don't you go finish it

cause i want to be a good writer, and at times i feel like it could happen, and then i read this and realize how shit i am.

Consequences will NEVER be the same.

just write something like this

i think i literally wouldn't be able to.

fuck me that's comfy

I only finished it like two weeks ago, I can't reread it yet.

You'd be really great at advertising Ruggles.

utterly terrible

Yuck. I may never read Pynchon now.

you're the guy with the cat who doesn't like the sound and the fury, right?

i am terribly intimidated by lengthy novels. that being said, pynchon in his prime would have to be my favorite author.

Anyone ever notice how crazies capitalized random words?

Fucking idiot.

But it's not that great. It's style and erudition wankery, is what it is.

That would be gauche

I'm so lukewarm about pynchy's style

it's pretty boring tho
is it the same all the way through?

mason and dixon makes the rest of pynchons books look like shit. even gravity's rainbow. yeah I said it. M&D is a much better story.

THIS shite is the best that the Pinecone has to offer? Jesus. Veeky Forums confirmed for terrible taste.

how many tears came out of your eyes when masons son said that thing about "your mate" at the end.

Mason's sons telling him they'd go on to have adventures for him made me legitimately cry for the first time in years.

Only proper nouns should be capitalised: capitalising abstract and concrete nouns isn't necessary.

oh man I actually thought that was happy. that part made me smile. the last transit was so good. can't stop thinking about that book. I wasn't sure I liked it that much until the end. now I love it. weird.

Does the rest of the novel average one period per page?

English is my third language and this is just too much for me. Looks like french to me

>third language
how did you do it?

>...proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults.

Its fucking perfect.

Born in one country, moved to another and learned english because... well, everything is in english.
I've read V. and C lot 49 but M&D is just too weird.

pleb

source: The Pleb-tier Style Guide of Mediocrity by

i don't think i'll even be book enough for this shit

seems like a knock-off joyce

I've started the first page 5 or 6 times, I don't know about this book.

Do it.

Al menos sabe mas lenguajes que tu, marica.

I did and the first page was the only good one.

I've read IJ, The Savage Detectives, GR and I'm 1/4 through The Recognitions, but Mason & Dixon is obscene. Eventually I'll read it

How was reading V. in a second language?

I'm about a tenth through The Recognitions. It's unbelievably dense. It's also unbelievably beautiful.

It's not as difficult as some Pynchon, but i feel much more fulfilled. Pynchon got the name Inherent Vice from this novel.

I take it you're talking about M&D? I also remember Against the Day coming up a few times.

We were talking about The Regonitions by W. Gaddis. He was one of Pynchon's influences and one of the founders of pomo lit. Pynchon's Inherent Vice is named such because of the repetition of that in The Recognitions.

because its unmitigated trash

shut up, Idiot

Make me!

I have yet to come across that in Recognitions. I know the phrase appears at least once in M&D.

Anyway, this is my first Gaddis and although it's hard, I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

How would you rate the Savage Detectives in comparison to the rest of the books you listed? I'm planning Bolaño or McCarthy next.

Not to discourage you, but the first 100 pages or so is the best thing put to paper ever (well, not really, but it's goddamn perfect).
The rest is not AS god, but it's still amazing.

Sure thing. Post the pages, OP.

K Y S

The Savage Detectives was disappointing, I'm hoping 2666 is better.

At first I read "one of the founders of porno lit.".
I don't want books no more, Veeky Forums, I need to get laid.