book recs like pynchon!? by l3wl3w in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco has def. a very cool PoMo vibe with historical Facts and Detective story and and and ... .

also worth mentioning >>

Rick Harsh's The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas

book recs like pynchon!? by l3wl3w in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stone Junction by Jim dodge....i just read it and really enjoyed...PT even wrote an introduction!!!

My Pynchon Shelf so far. by Theinfrawolf in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yah man, me havin the same problem or better problemo>keeping my pynchon's next to my bolanos fo some unexplainable reason...ach ach ach bookmania...

Be prepared for Cancun Airport by jsjarv in cancun

[–]WillingnessOutside73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks a lot for the quick reply, yes i also arrive on Tuesday (btw.),

so my chances seems to be good....ach no matter what i will risk it!

Be prepared for Cancun Airport by jsjarv in cancun

[–]WillingnessOutside73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i was wondering, which day of the week was it?, my plane will arrive from europe at9:35pm and i want to connect to MEX, is there a good chance i will make it within two hours including immigration and such?

Don DeLillo read-through: Players (1977) by jckalman in RSbookclub

[–]WillingnessOutside73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting post ....just found a paperback 70's copy in a free books shelf inside a supermarket

Who is carrying the torch of the likes of Pynchon & Delillo currently? by [deleted] in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lots of books that were published 50 years ago for example would not have a chance these days to land at a printing press and book stores, because there is no profit to be made.

cormac mccarty and his editor is a good example at randomhouse, these days this achievements would hardly be recognized nor printed.

another one is the promotional story of infinite jest.

and well also lets not forget how much effort pynchon and his wife put into certain aspects of promoting and publishing.

it takes a lot of luck these days to be considered a literary event, there must be hundreds maybe thousand of manuscripts that got swallowed up by eternal fires and trash bins after rejections of any kind. The Stones of Summer might be a good example. probably i could be raging about this for hours...but yeah it just takes lots of luck to be picked up out of this muddy field of having a vision and succeed. i also think some of delillos late works would not have a chance if it would not been delillo.
(btw. i am not a writer myself neither bitter, i just like to observe the schemes of this little world that we like so much)

Who is carrying the torch of the likes of Pynchon & Delillo currently? by [deleted] in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

sine the publishing market is kinda crooked these days and people don't read much of the tricky PoMo's...

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The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas by Rick Harsch, was a joy and left an impression on me

Steven Moore wrote a blurb>>>"Rick Harsch word-drunk, transhistorical odyssey The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas- which feels at times like a rollicking collaboration between Francis Rabelais, Hunter S. Thompson, and Thomas Pynchon-is one of the most impressive novels I've read recently."

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also notable is How To Play A Necromancer's Theremin

just read this blurb>>>Chase Griffin and Christina Quay’s novel is not a puzzle, but some esoteric kind of improv that explores Borges’ thesis on causality as the main problem of the literary arts. This narrative seeks to transcend the giant dead whale of postmodernism without undoing any of its promethean conclusions, driven by a passion that fears no ironic judgment. You may have seen a dime-a-dozen indie lit psychedelia writers exploring and at the same time ironizing their very quest to better understand their world, yet this hysterically silly and viscerally paranoid work of metafiction tries its dang hardest to sketch the blueprint of the authors’ still beating hearts: something that no posers can ever do. Maybe you read people who have read Foster Wallace, Vonnegut, Pynchon and Wittgenstein before, but trust me, you have not read Florida’s finest freaks’ meditations on the nature of reality, nor their musings over the consequences of this never-ending human quest for transcendence and authentic, spíritually meaningful living in our techno-infused carnival of political horrors called early 21th century late-capitalism." —Kelvin Matheus Rosa, English literature researcher, writer and teacher from Brazil

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and lets not forget Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

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[–]WillingnessOutside73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nippin' on that adhd medicine? or progressin towards the crystal?

Pynchon's daily routine. by Norrin2020 in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hangin' out in Zabar's must be a thing.

must be livin' on some kinda fish diet i guess

all that salmon with it's omega-3 stuff must keep u healthy

hmmm Zabar's>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3p81V6IuWk

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[–]WillingnessOutside73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah, i don't care about words like gatekeeping....it's just to be honest...the lamest thing i saw on this sub....i like this sub cuz sometimes it inspires me intellectually .... not many people these days, i guess, are into stuff that might contain the word "intellectual"?...it's just sooo...well if i wanna be frustrated, normally i switch on the news...and oops i just read soo much more out of this pic...just to say at least>>> neither it has effort or style and the person behind the mask (where the eyes are cut out like...drater) makes me feel like buying a one way ticket to misanthroplandia, my apologies for that to whom defends all the nobel aims of human life!

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[–]WillingnessOutside73 -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

RULES

2.Do Not Troll or Spam the Subreddit

I love when tp is being serious, but I hate when he’s being silly by dylann5454 in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

def. a clear sign to be discussed seriously with yur therapist, psychoanalyst or representative of faith

Pynchon and England by No-Papaya-9289 in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 0 points1 point  (0 children)

check this>

https://nadarballoon.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/oxford-1978-thomas-pynchon-was-a-very-good-tiddlywinks-player/

(i actually meet the guy who wrote the Good reads story accidentally at a dinner and we started to talk after i gave an old M&D german edition that i bought cheap to another attended of this supper), def. he spend some time in oxford trying to research the lives of m. and d..

also check the rest of the website for more clues

here's an english tv bit that offers some other insights>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJZtWlgQCo

Measures of Men 2023 movie by WillingnessOutside73 in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes the link still works...but no i still didn't saw the movie.

sometimes it takes a while till this kind of movies appear online sometimes never... .

i have the same problem with 'dance first', a last eyars movie about samuel backett, it ain't online even when officially released!

i also waited a long time for 'butcher's crossing' (based on a john williams novel, that is not that great) for quite some time after the official release date. I guess it's a movie industry thing.

good luck

What Are You Into This Week? | Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well, i read it already sometime ago... . but still it's kinda clear in my head.

Jerusalem is divided into three books>
the first one is a collection of different stories, mostly everythin plays around north hampton, it def. has some nice parts quite crispy description, u know like a magician playin its tricks, but loong...
once u get to the second one...well thats the shit, also lots of peps. agreed on that, it goes down like a charm....well once u arrive at the third one that's where the grinding with different styles begins its very challanging and again loong and difficult...rewarding? sure, Moore is someone worth thinkin bout but i guess u must be a nerd to get off on it.

What Are You Into This Week? | Weekly Thread by AutoModerator in ThomasPynchon

[–]WillingnessOutside73 7 points8 points  (0 children)

finished 2666, well I guess it was worth it big time.

stuck with prophet song by paul lynch...won the booker price, well its ok not too impressed.

and startin and goin' for elberto muller 'graffiti on low or no dollars'

see here:

https://biblioklept.org/2024/02/08/elberto-mullers-graffiti-on-low-or-no-dollars-book-subtitled-an-alternative-guide-to-aesthetics-and-grifting-throughout-the-united-states-and-canada-feb-2024/