I know they were originally lumped together arbitrarily by merit of their supposed "difficulty"...

this is either op samefagging, which is pathetic, or it's further evidence that Veeky Forums really has gotten so pleb to the point where this drivel is considered insightful, which is also pathetic

I'm actually upper class so I can like what I want.

>i'm actually upper class
t. middle class

post 'em, Veeky Forums

>Infinite Jest is about genuinely extraordinary people who are ultimately defeated by their inability to be "normal".

i hate you. i hate you so much. read the fucking book again you piece of shit

Gravity's Rainbow is a complete outlier, Slothrop is not a 'regular guy' at all.

>literary value
ulysses > gr > ij
>personal opinion
gr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ulysses > ij

Yea he is. He's just a somewhat handsome soldier who smokes weed. Most of his adventures are probably imagined or coincidental. He loses his entire identity when the conspiracy surrounding him collapses.

>dat quasi-perfect editions game
>dem dubs

well memed, relative

if you have any of these editions you must either burn them in public or kys (kill you are self)

Literally nothing wrong with 25th anniversary IJ

They fixed that edition of GR

nice meme!

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1) It looks like something a girl would read

2) Stupid bullshit deckled fucking page edges (also pertains to point 1)

Eh. Instead of assigning meaning where there is none, as books share little in terms of themes, I'd rather consider why are they so meme-worthy. To make my sample size bigger, I will lump in Stoner and Blood Meredian with these three.
All five books share the fact that they transform mechanical into organical, breaking a seemingly impossible barrier in communication. This is most obvious in Stoner and IJ, which excel at translating a typical "mechanical" figurant-type-man into a living, breathing thing. The only living thing there is is you, or me, and as such some translation is required from the language of mechanical and inorganic to your language. IJ and Stoner are so easily comprehensible because(for members of this board) they translate the mechanical parts of ourselves to the lingo of living parts, i.e chemical depression to feelsies, or autamatic way of living into a purpose.
Ulysses, as you described it, is about a "regular man" - well, this is true, but a lot of books are about Other, which is incomprehensible, and Joyce suceeds about making the regularity your own, inhaling life into it. This is also a translation.
GR seems wacky and weird and insincere at first, which makes my claim of it being "the translation of mechanical into organical" dubious, but one look at the main themes - the War, which turns within the book into a part of human condition, the Entropy, translated from physics... Actually, GR is almost blatant with it: look at decriptions of Imopolex, of rockets.
Blood Meridian I am too lazy to describe so, but again, look at the themes of violence and war.

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IJ is fucking huge!

Literary analysis is by-and-large the art of bullshitting. For a two sentence shitpost about the epic meme trilogy OP did a decent job.

>Literary analysis is by-and-large the art of bullshitting
t. doesn't know what real literary analysis is

Okay why don't you go ask Harold Bloom how the school of aestheticism is doing or write a thesis refuting the death of the author

kek I have the penguin edition of gravity's rainbow and a wordsworth collection of James Joyce

Memes

looking for ppl who want to read Ulysses, chronologically the first installment, in a Veeky Forums chat reading group

discord.gg/01016TZPAPULpxT67

Nice analysis, dude. (Let's see if it goes over your head twice.)

1. You can find that edition of GR with the missing line restored.

2. That's the best edition of IJ.

Wow ulysses is that small a file? Thought it was a man's book...

>gendering books that aren't YA

found the autist

If you say that unironically your opinion doesn't matter.

What are you guys talking about? Genuinely curious, were there shitty edits?

>t.

I just started coming to Veeky Forums, and I've seen this multiple times. What does it mean? Translation?

>nb4newfagnormieplebpseudo

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That's the point you dense pseud. It looks like a YA book. Stop shitposting and start reading for fuck sakes.

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>literally judging a book by lame cover art
>thinking this is shitposting

i just bought gravitys rainbow

if i got memed im going to be pissed

>t. newfag
t. oldfag

has anyone called it memélogy yet?

It's good. The first 70-100 pages are a mix of surrealism and emotional war turmoil. A couple of episodes after Slothrop is introduced it really starts to take off. The major pleb barriers are the shit eating/African penis fetish scene that cost him the Pulitzer somewhere before page 60 and the opening banana dream sequence and adenoid monster attack. If this is your first Pynchon it's going to be weird. Try not to be a bitter faggot and just engage the text. All of the 4 parts of the book are distinct from each other in style and subject matter. Read the entire book, don't read 50 or even 500 pages and then come shitpost on Veeky Forums about how he is a hack because he's a meme because people like him so he sucks etc.

The whole meme author = inherently shit concept is retarded. But everyone knew the board would turn on Pynchon after the movie came out.

that makes sense for at least JOI, Hal, Orin, and almost JvD

Gr and Ij actually owe more to Finnegans Wake than to Ulysses.

How so?

That Edna Duffy Ulysses cover is incredible
Ordered it a few weeks ago, still waiting on this bitch to arrive though

I got no idea how you read books on your PC.. Gotta be really uncomfortable

either e-reader or matte screen with low brightness and low color temperature (using flux/redshift/sct)

They both employ cyclical forms where the beginning and end flow into one another, also GR's four part structure is similar to the four part structure of Finnegans Wake. And the "nightlesson" chapter made the way IJ uses notes look tame comparatively.