― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 9 September 2002 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 September 2002 11:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 September 2002 11:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 September 2002 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
This paper kind of deals with these issues, in a rather-too academic fashion.
This masculinist gigantism can is by no means self-evidently pro-feminist. Gravity's Rainbow often reads like a male fantasy gone out of control: the phalli are a little too large, the female characters too eager to bed down with Slothrop, the victims of sadists far too eager about their own pain.7 And because the narrative doesn't offer final readings, it is never quite clear how much really is mockery or disruption and how much is the residue of real assumptions about gender. These exaggerations self-consciously invite a feminist critique, from an outsider's perspective. But the novel itself does not supply that critique; it can only inflate or dislocate the discourses of its own crimes, and so at once gesture to a newly written self and reduplicate an old and tiresome one.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
I think it's a good thing that, although I have seen mention of, I have never read about pynchon here.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 24 April 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link
"well, no, i usually, uh-" this is embarrassing for perdoo, it's like being called on to, to justify eating an apple, or even popping a grape into your mouth- "just, well, sort of, eat them... whole, you know"
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
I finished Gravity's Rainbow yesterday. I wondered exactly how to express my reaction, or opinion. The more I wondered, the more my reactions threatened, or promised, to alter.
I shouldn't exaggerate that last point, though.
Some day I would like to take, or make, some room to say, and possibly also discover, some of what I think of the book.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 7 August 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― nestmanso (nestmanso), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
Depsite much pynchon-love coming from Joel and other people I think highly of, I just can't get into Pynchon.
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
Have read crying a couple of times and enjoyed it lots. I'm thinking its a cousin to PKD's 'Three stigmata of palmer eldritch' so that means its great.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 7 August 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
I was shocked by how conventional they are. I didn't like 'Atrophy' that much despite its reputation and really dug that one about the guy who runs off with the garbage man.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Thursday, 7 August 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
My bad.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Thursday, 7 August 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I., Friday, 8 August 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 8 August 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
FWIW, Sam, I much prefer that other crazy literary recluse guy.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:45 (twenty years ago) link
― C J (C J), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
Where Slothrop gets horny, bombs drop. Now, a study of the Herero.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
That may contain the germ of a defence, as well as the outline of a rejection.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
The second is to look at all other sections as self-contained -- like an obliquely connected collection of short stories.
To understand how it all connects, let x represent the number of times you read it. Then let x approach infinity.
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link
alt. as a set of symbol systems (zodiac tarot jungian etc.) mapped onto one another and an investigation into the moralism of ways of knowing and meaning.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
Another problem I have is that I tend to read very quickly - sometimes skim-reading - and that's just not something you can do with GR, is it?!
I'm going back to it again this weekend, to start from the beginning again. Wish me luck!
― C J (C J), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 26 September 2003 03:44 (twenty years ago) link
― david acid (gareth), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh dear God
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
whenever this thread is revived I worry that he's dead. how old is he by now anyway?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:17 (six months ago) link
86 I think
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:18 (six months ago) link
there's a signed edition of Mason and Dixon on Ebay for $24k.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274765041981?hash=item3ff945d13d:g:B7oAAOSwQWBdfQkd&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4NQNcS8Q0SfQmzO0180rdkEA3JX4lSWkw5TA7yzzANIQk8pUsHcXQs8FzKvlDWMLPHJePYglAPUC093VvGVN68JYxmebKgweiZ8Nbcw5r5XNmSffetYZxis45gH8G%2FfrPxRsxto3SCtzlSp1kA%2FFtpyf5Q0241JFXIjigK74en2DIdcCmj2hJ0zoRKRw6G%2Fvc7pfVR3LWO0QInO5m7tckigFGMBRoe2cUdDELt0miJWdXDFcNtpPjIsrD5S4PqlPUjKYygYfT%2B1sHP0efqct3wR4Yr3Y5amrbKlkoeg3pOqf%7Ctkp%3ABlBMUOq9tu3XYg
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:41 (six months ago) link
I’ve seen signed Salinger and Pynchon titles go for between $10k and $30k. You can see some more on Abebooks
― beamish13, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:49 (six months ago) link
He's actually been dead since 1974. The books written by "Thomas Pynchon" after that point have actually been written by Irwin Corey.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:51 (six months ago) link
i've held on to a signed Infinite Jest first edition in the hope that it would hit those heights but alas they seem to go for around 4k; he's dead but he wasn't exactly a recluse. If I don't get a job at some point I'll probably have to let it go.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:52 (six months ago) link
i found a hilarious reddit thread from a european investigator who followed old men all over new york wondering if they were pynchon. he may or may not have snapped a picture of the back of him going into the building they confirmed as a residence of pynchon's wife. I just like to imagine old guys in NY getting accosted by a swede asking "are you thomas pynchon?" and their bewildered eyes
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:55 (six months ago) link
that's amazing
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:03 (six months ago) link
I vaguely know Elvis Buñuelo and I read *Mating* at his behest. Amazing novel.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:34 (six months ago) link
xxxpost best novel by an ex-CIA agent: might be those by pen names ov Paul Linebarger, though I haven't yet read any (though omg the shorter fiction)
― dow, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:10 (six months ago) link
re: Linebarger, the short fiction is amazing and stands up today. if anything only more prescient on e.g. animal liberation. nonfictionwise, Psychological Warfare is sitting on my desk but I haven't cracked it yet.
best by ex-CIA probably deserves its own thread. Frank Herbert seems obvious but afaict he genuinely was not affiliated.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:25 (six months ago) link
Don't forget Harry Mathews
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 5 October 2023 21:07 (six months ago) link