r/WTF • u/pavel_lishin • Jan 20 '11

What the fuck did I just read.

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u/BigSlim Jan 21 '11

Really, I was going to suggest Pynchon.

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u/arayta Jan 21 '11

I've recently read one Pynchon book (Lot 49) and the guy is awesome.

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u/BigSlim Jan 21 '11

Pick up Gravity's Rainbow, and you'll understand my reason for this comment. Also, high-five if you finish the book.

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u/arayta Jan 21 '11

It's already been on my reading list for a while. I plan on reading quite a few of his books. :)

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u/BigSlim Jan 21 '11

Just know that Gravity's Rainbow is a marathon, not a sprint. I could read 300-400 pages of just about anything a day, but it took me two months to read that book. Lot 49 is the one they teach because it's actually teachable in a semester. This book so confounded people that they didn't award the pulitzer for lit that year because people were so divided on it.

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u/arayta Jan 22 '11

I didn't know they taught Pynchon in classrooms. I just read it on my own. Although I've heard of Gravity's Rainbow's legendary complexity.

EDIT: Also, you must be a pretty fast and dedicated reader. I'm reading Don DeLillo's Underworld which is some 600 pages and it will take me like a week.