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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:32:05 No.7287964 View Reply Report Delete

Is Crying of Lot 49 considered Pinecone Lite? Read it a few months ago and Gravity's Rainbow is in the mail, and wondering what I'm getting myself into.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:34:49 No.7287977 Report Delete

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Kinda. It's old-school Pinecone but he did acknowledge that it was poorly written by his standards and basically a potboiler.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:36:49 No.7287983 Report Delete

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lot 49 is like a dumb supermodel without make up. She looks great but she's so fucking deluded she only thinks she looks good with ten inches of horrific skin ruining obscurantist chemicals on her face.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:46:02 No.7288027 Report Delete

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Its early pinecone.

It has his energy but does not measure up to his later writing at all.

better than his early short stories which are sometimes genuinely bad

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:46:25 No.7288029 Report Delete

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Is GR makeupless in comparison?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:50:55 No.7288058 Report Delete

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It's a good starter. It isn't as bad as he makes it out to be in Slow Learner. I mean, any of us here would be fucking honored to have been able to write it.

But even "minor" Pinecone is still fun

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:51:00 No.7288060 Report Delete

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Hear hear. Especially Mortality and Mercy in Vienna. I can see why he was too ashamed to have it in Slow Learner.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:56:09 No.7288089 Report Delete

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I read GR first for a class, and it's probably my favorite novel still. I read Crying after and was very disappointed... felt just like slightly better Vonnegut or something. IMO they are world's apart, though V is somewhere in between

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:59:35 No.7288112 Report Delete

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Gravity's Rainbow is just as bad but people think it's a masterpiece because it's longer.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 00:06:27 No.7288154 Report Delete

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 00:08:37 No.7288168 Report Delete

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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW IS A MASTERPIECE, EVERY SENTENCE IS GENIUS, THE BLURB ALONE IS BETTER THAN INFINITE JEST, GO FUCK YOURSELF, I BET YOU DIDN'T EVEN READ THE GREEKS

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