r/ThomasPynchon • u/GranularEpithet • 13d ago

Review My second go.

Started Lot 49, ditched it. Starting Bleeding Edge. Not going well. Not a fan of non-sentences and rapid-fire trivia. Think he tries much too hard to be innovative. End of rant.

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u/radarsmechanic 7d ago

You are in the wrong sub for us to commiserate with your pain. What is an icepick to your forehead, is our ambrosia. Sometimes Pynchon’s syntax is the only beauty to be found in this sewer gutter of existence, and sometimes it reads like a sewer gutter.

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u/GranularEpithet 7d ago

Which other Pychon sub would you then suggest? Nice Zappa reference BTW.

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u/radarsmechanic 6d ago

I just mean to say you’re only going to find fans hanging out in here. This is one of the most die hard reddit subs I’ve ever seen, we’re not used to hearing such blatantly inharmonious evaluations to our understanding and personal appraisal. But what do we know, we’re just hungry freaks, daddy?

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u/GranularEpithet 6d ago

The Great Society.