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The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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GregP
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Yep - I read TCOL49 because I couldn't face GR.
Chrisull
Chrisull
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Gravity's Rainbow, like Moby Dick is one I have picked up, read a bit, failed, put down and need to come baclk to years on. That was in my 20s. I may have more of the cultural refences needed to help now. Also if I got it in the Kindle, double clicking on words/passages helps with really tricky stuff. (as it did with the high weirdness book - and other current reading - where terms in those books(not Pynchon) - like hermeneutics, antagonistic pleiotropy become instantly more understandable). But still...

I've read TCOL49, which can be hard going, but its brevity keeps is manageable and Vineland is easier. I've read V too, I think that was tougher than TCOL49, but not as tough as GR.

His later stuff is much easier "Inherent Vice", is like a pulp detective novel gone a little crazy.
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar the Grouch
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I saw your TCOL49 quote, Greppers and immediately thought it sounded like the sort of management psycho babble we find in C Block.
GregP
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:)
Serendippily
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:-) I liked The Crying of Lot 49 but then I was studying that there post modern tripe at the time and its brevity was many points in its favour. Gave up on Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow at same point. Liked the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for the same reason
Diogenes
Diogenes
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I haven't read Portrait Of The Landscape Artist As A Young Man, but I have read Stephen Hero which is an earlier version of the same. The title appealed to me :-)
GregP
GregP
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Here's a strange postmodern tripe list. It's got TTTC in it.

latimesblogs.latimes.com
Serendippily
Serendippily
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Oo I’ve read 8 and have a very weighty no 9 (infinite jest) by my bed. Read quite a lot more if you allow different books by same author
mrs shanksi
mrs shanksi
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I haven't read any of those, but have read a few books by the authors on the list.
McGoohan
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No HHhH? *Weeps*

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