lol singing and dancing octopus
― remy bean, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
question is who plays rocketman?
― cutty, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
bill pullman in a surprise cameo
― remy bean, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Well already I'm very pleased with the nonchalant approach to the absurd evident in Pynchon's writing-style. I've heard it scales astonishing heights of intense and comic intricacy. Sounds fab. Will get on the case as soon as I get home tomorrow.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Roberto Rodriguez would do a fab job, maybe with particularly surreal sections either by Pixar or rotoscope-style (or both!)
― s.clover, Saturday, 16 August 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
pynchon really needs an action director for the most part, and a straight-up genre director in general.
― s.clover, Saturday, 16 August 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this book anything like 'O Lucky Man'?
I have to say the X-Treme enthusiasm for this over the entire history of ILX has made me not want to read it, ever.
― Abbott, Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Not being funny, but y'know O Lucky Man is a re-working of Candide, right? GR does have elements of them in it, come to think of it. I understand what you mean about being off-put, but I think it's beautiful and like most big beautiful books best approached as a quilty wonderland to get lost in rather than as a code to break or a mountain to climb.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
richard kelly
― kl0pper, Monday, 18 August 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry, coen brothers suck. who could be this funny and amazing? no one. leave it as a fucking book for once.
― strgn, Monday, 18 August 2008 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Noodle Vague OTM re "quilty wonderland"
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 18 August 2008 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
yes! why some things should never be film adapted unless they are something completely different
― strgn, Monday, 18 August 2008 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Could work as an ongoing prime time soap opera style serial though, 30 mins a week in perpetuity. And I still think an animated version might work.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 18 August 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
totally, anything serial or genre. animated would be amazing but crazy. graphic novel?
― strgn, Monday, 18 August 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
There is some German film based on (bits of) GR. It also features Robert Forster out of the Go Betweens! Trailer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ046SJpl8E
― Stevie T, Monday, 18 August 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"as per leslie fiedler there is little difference, generically, between sex porn and horror-porn"
huh well even for leslie fiedler that's cracky
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i haven't reread this book in like almost two years! this makes me sad.
― thomp, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
malcolm mcdowell would be the best of all possible slothrups
― remy bean, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
leave it as a fucking book for once.
generally, i agree with this sentiment. but i think the narrative of GR is one of the most brilliant and beautifully crafted things i have ever read. i would love to see it in visual form. preferably while pynchon is still alive and is willing to work on it. most likely that will never happen.
― cutty, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
there's always the opera, which he technically agreed to
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
coogan?
― s.clover, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
x post
He only agreed for the opera if it was entirely scored for kazoo
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 23 August 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Banjo, I think.
― Stevie T, Saturday, 23 August 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
It is now almost exactly 5 years since I finished this book. I hope it has improved a bit in that time.
― the pinefox, Monday, 25 August 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Or maybe you have?
― s.clover, Monday, 25 August 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought it was ukulele; I wonder if the whole story is actually apocryphal.
I am quite impressed that the pinefox finished this book, considering his distaste for it.
― thomp, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
more & more I think certain aspects of its reputation are unearned, but also unaimed for � aspects which help it maintain a kind of cachet without helping readers or potential readers read it better, or read anything else
I tend to change my mind twice about whether any novel of P.'s is any good at least twice during the course of a reading. I have decided to reread Against The Day next, but only if I see the American edition somewhere.
― thomp, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Though uke and kazoo are both plausible, according to LA herself it was banjo:
http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Well already I'm very pleased with the nonchalant approach to the absurd evident in Pynchon's writing-style. I've heard it scales astonishing heights of intense and comic intricacy. Sounds fab. Will get on the case as soon as I get home tomorrow.-- Just got offed, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:33 (2 weeks ago) Link
-- Just got offed, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:33 (2 weeks ago) Link
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
robert downey jr gains 40 pounds and plays slothrop, please
― cutty, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
took me like five months but i finally finished it
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like it was a chore for you
― velko, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
shit i need to do this
― kell surprise (country matters), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it would probably be in my top 10 favorite books.
― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
congrats max, i couldn't even get all the way through the crying of lot 49 ;_;
― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
lol xp
i read the first 10 pages last summer and they were great...but then i just stopped...i've not been in the habit of reading novels since graduating, and now i actually don't have the time to even if the urge struck
but this in every way sounds like the kind of thing i'd go nuts for
― kell surprise (country matters), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
crying of lot 49 is nowhere near as good as GR or M&D or IV imho
― Mr. Que, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I have as yet to finish M&D. I'm not sure why it felt like such a struggle - maybe it was the historical period and subjects it tackled.
― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
no, it wasnt a chore, but the last 150 pages were kind of tough going for me
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i was proud of myself for being able to follow what was happening, more or less
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 V & GR, sorta underwhelmed by crying of lot 49, loathed M&D to the point of never wanting to read any new pynchon ever
― velko, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
erm, even if the urge *strikes*, that should be. anyway after i finish my MA i swear to every mod on ilx that i will read this mfing novel next summer
― kell surprise (country matters), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
we will have a parade in your honor, complete with animated penguin gifs
― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
octopus master of ceremonies
― Mr. Que, Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway max dude you read the best authors, plz be my pending lit guru, i want you to check on my pynchon and nabokov intake come this time next year with all the assiduity of a coroner, que and velko and sarahel can play too
― kell surprise (country matters), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh all i really read is "postmodern fiction" and scandinavian crime novels
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
and hp lovecraft
i'm trying to remember the last novel i read - i think it was The Financier by Theodore Dreisser. It wasn't all that great, but I did learn about puts, calls, short selling, and various other stock market products, that apparently existed in some form even back then.
― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Sunday, 4 October 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting. I've read L49 and I am observing IV cautiously from afar. Just read an ambiguous review of it (Bookforum) that had to defend its unsatisfactory aspects as really intentional and the whole point.
― alimosina, Sunday, 4 October 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
is richard powers the kinder gentler pynchon? is he a better writer than pynchon?
― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
did you read james wood's review of richard powers?? i think he would disagree w/ you. it was pretty brutal
― just sayin, Monday, 5 October 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link