How do these three tomes stack up against each other? Best of each? Worst of each? Most ambitious of each? Most respectable-but-flawed of each? How and why?
How do these three tomes stack up against each other? Best of each? Worst of each? Most ambitious of each...
ask bloomio
characterisation and comfyness = M&D
overall fun time with decent characterisation = AtD
crazy mind-altering experience but little characterisation = GR
I'm reading Against the Day and it's pretty darn good. I'm leaning towards GR next because it's his most known masterpiece. M&D's prose seems really transcendent, but requires very careful, slow reading.
Haven't read MD but was disappointed by AtD after GR.
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
Against the Day
But it's closer than you'd think. There are days when my order flips, and others when I can't decide. They're all masterpieces in their own way, and I love each one for different reasons. They're all so good that when people ask me for my top 10 favorite novels I feel embarrassed, 3 are Pynchon.
for what reason?
What's the appeal of each?
ATD is the best imo. Least difficult of the 3 i.e. most enjoyable. It's a fun on a page-by-page basis and has a bit of everything. Combines the historical fiction of M&D (without the 18th c diction) and the vastness of GR (without the oppressiveness and fractured narrative)
i wish there were more authors like pynchon.
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Only read V, GR, M&D if you're masochistic and/or an English major
I've only read CoL49. I thought it was funny as fuck, but by the end of the book I just felt confused about what the fuck I just read.
Welcome to Pynchon, enjoy your stay.
M&D is one of the best things I've ever read so I'd put it at the top, one of the most intimate friendships I've ever seen in literature.
>the Penguin error meme again
Plebs trying to justify not owning the aesthetic as fuck Miller cover
While I have other favourite authors, Pynchon keeps taking the cake. There's just nobody else like him. And I don't even mean stylistically like him -- I mean in a sense of taking huge fucking risks.
which one is the Miller?
who?
Reading Mason and Dixon and Against the Day in tandem deadass
gr > md > atd in all regards imo
even characterization?
> aesthetic
> Miller
keep telling yourself the typos have been fixed
only GR copies worth owning are the blue and the orange covers
you got a problem with bloomio?
I saw a copy in chapters were pg149 was fixed
The meme is old. I have the Miller and the errors are fixed. They've been fixed for years now.
M&D>GR>>AtD
too bad that book is ugly as fuck
DUDE
I finished AtD a few weeks ago and I think it has the best ending paragraph on any Pynchon book
Mason & Dixon > Gravity's Rainbow > Against the Day
it's time to stop
holy fuck
he's a LITTLE SNEAKY MAN LIKE A SNAKE OUTTA A CAN
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So does that mean MD and AtD don't have that same shattered, kaleidoscopic vision GR had? I was hoping it would.
They are more on-rails and less psychedelic if that's what you mean
AtD is the worst, the other two are de gustibus.
AtD>>M&D>>>>GR
nah
arguable. AtD has more straightforward prose out of the three, but you still have a huge collection of characters and places with stuff like a guy getting dynamited into another dimension and stuff
AtD for me is a perfect level of challenging, I'm not hardheaded enough to want to go back to the other two - at least not at my current reading ability. (had to quit GR after 200pgs)
agreed. Nice taste.
Depends what you value. I prefer lucid understanding to high-level prose, so naturally I tend towards atd.
GR isn't difficult to comprehend
AtD is a cakewalk 500 pages in, I don't know why people say it's so difficult
It took my 5 years and several attempts to finish GR, but it is his masterpiece without question.
dey iz returd