Stop. Fucking. Singing

There was a young fellow named Crockett!
Who had an affair with a rocket!
If you saw them out there
You'd be tempted to stare,
But if you ain't tried it, don't knock it!

it's gonna be my life goal now to kill you

i want to thank you, since you have finally given me meaning

There was a young fellow named Hector,
Who was fond of a launcher-erector.
But the squishes and pops
Of acute pressure drops
Wrecked Hector's hydraulic connector!

ja ja ja ja in prussia they never eat pussay—

X2

I hate that you faggots give this book a bad name making it seem like is all about wackiness, I almost cried at the end of part 1. Kill yourselves

GR is definitely more elegiac than the memes had led me to believe. it's still chock full of goofs, gags, jokes, and rambunctious behavior, however.

Then you'd miss the end of GR

I cried when Grigori was being beaten with a bear bottle.

Very heartfelt moment

FUCK. Beer** bottle

Is GR a good book to start with Pynchon?

Not really, but honestly it's not a horrible start. Ideally you'd read The Crying of Lot 49 first, but it isn't the same caliber as V., GR, M&D, AtD, etc.

If you have TCoL49 read it first, otherwise just start with V. or GR, they're honestly not that hard

It's fine. Just read it. This guy is a moron. Crying is bad and not worth reading. V. is good and not worth reading.
Just go for GR. You'll be fine.

I would reccomend V or Gravity's Rainbow, you don't want to wean yourself onto Pynchon like some bad medicine, the density and overwhelming quality of his best works is the whole point. V and GR are similarly mosaic narratives that share a good number of themes and a few characters, your choice is really between the extreme cynicism of Gravity's Rainbow and the juvenile indifference of V.

>Crying is bad and not worth reading
fucking fight me you weak faggot

This is the stupidest and most meme book I've ever fucking read.

How shit like this gets published in beyond me. Pynchon must have sucked every dick in New York for this shit to find its way to print.

>useless words for 800 pages
>pedophilia
>witchcraft
>pie fights in the sky
>rape
>incest

Complete useless garbage. The whole book.

>Crying is bad and not worth reading.
Wrong.
>V. is good and not worth reading.
>V. ... not worth reading
Yeah, I don't respect your opinion at all

it might be the most important novel of the 20th century

tell me exactly why that is

I went directly to GR. I love it now

One of the greatest books ever written by Nabokov is a song.

All epics were songs

Dylan wrote ONLY songs

GET FUKKED YOU CANTANKEROUS IDIOT

There once was a guy named Akira,
Who read all the works of Shakespira.
He admired the man,
And so, to Japan,
Imported Macbeth and King Lira.

(composed soon after his death and posted to Usenet... how time flies)

>implying it's not just a poor man's Slaughterhouse Five

inb4 GR is better because it has a higher page count

nigga u old

>BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
> open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us);
>write it, print the hex while each watches,
> reverse its length, write again;
> kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
> unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
>sort the flock (then, warn the "goats" & kill the "sheep");
> kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
> values aside, each one;
> die sheep! die to reverse the system
> you accept (reject, respect);
>next step,
> kill the next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
> wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
> do it ("as they say").
>do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
>return last victim; package body;
> exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
> select (quickly) & warn your next victim;
>AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.
> wait, wait until time;
> wait until next year, next decade;
> sleep, sleep, die yourself,
> die at last
># Larry Wall

attribution, dammit!

Tom Fucking Lehrer!

i suspect you haven't read it, user. you've read about it. here. which is like sampling chocolates out of the toilet bowl.

btw, guys; FOUND IT. it was in my back yard all along.

>might be
Big if true

That is In Search of Lost Time, stupid fag.

that's Ulysses, stupid fag.

That's The Recognitions, stupid fag.

go to /mu nigga

i cried when Tchitcherine walked past Enzian without recognizing him

'no'

that's ariel dummy