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Are Pynchon books actually readable or just gibberish?

He just released a new book at 92 years old Cn a normal ...
Diverse outnumbered sound barrier
  10/10/25
I think all his books over the past 15 years have been inten...
Angry white woman tailgating you on an empty road
  11/09/25
has a single famous person released a single great work past...
vengeful mahogany affirmative action
  10/10/25
Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 y...
Diverse outnumbered sound barrier
  10/10/25
Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut H...
metal point
  10/10/25
Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. H...
Histrionic shrine half-breed
  10/10/25
Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, i...
glittery rusted puppy locus
  10/10/25
I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything a...
house-broken old irish cottage
  10/10/25
Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening sce...
house-broken old irish cottage
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(guy who literally can't remember who the author was)
Medicated rehab
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Henna dilemma goyim
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Cracking Balding Abode Antidepressant Drug
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laughsome heaven quadroon
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glittery rusted puppy locus
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Floppy coffee pot haunted graveyard
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Cracking Balding Abode Antidepressant Drug
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Diverse outnumbered sound barrier
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Oh, you read?
orchid useless brakes
  10/10/25
they're pretty readable his later stuff more so than the ea...
autistic crackhouse
  10/10/25
That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, alt...
Cracking Balding Abode Antidepressant Drug
  10/10/25
Mason and Dixon was written when he was like 50 and it's abo...
Angry white woman tailgating you on an empty road
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I loved the first half of Mason and Dixon and then it starte...
The Mongoloid President's Advisor
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The prose itself is not difficult to read but there is often...
metaepistemology is trans
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crying of lot 49 was extremely funny in parts. the whole su...
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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Diverse outnumbered sound barrier

He just released a new book at 92 years old

Cn a normal person read these or are they like NSAMs "by you" page?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339600)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 3:53 AM
Author: Angry white woman tailgating you on an empty road

I think all his books over the past 15 years have been intended to be converted to screenplay/film so his son Jackson can have some money when he dies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49413738)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: vengeful mahogany affirmative action

has a single famous person released a single great work past 80? or maybe even 70?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339603)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: Diverse outnumbered sound barrier

Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 years old



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339617)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: metal point

Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut Hamsun for collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation. He was in his 90s at the time. while he was under house arrest and subjected to weeks of compulsory psychiatric examination at an oslo mental hospital, he wrote an account of the case and defense of his activities in the war. The account was published under the title, "on overgrown paths." It's an exceptional work by a nonagenarian.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49340592)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: Histrionic shrine half-breed

Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. He'll be 90+ (or dead) when the next volume comes out, and I still expect it to be great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49340736)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: glittery rusted puppy locus

Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, is readable but in a strange way. Often it's individual episodes that are linked thematically with a shitton of individual character plot lines that often don't intersect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339637)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:11 PM
Author: house-broken old irish cottage

I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339649)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: house-broken old irish cottage

Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening scenes. Maybe involving a private detective

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339651)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: Medicated rehab

(guy who literally can't remember who the author was)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339653)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:14 PM
Author: Henna dilemma goyim



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: Cracking Balding Abode Antidepressant Drug



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: laughsome heaven quadroon



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: glittery rusted puppy locus



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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: Floppy coffee pot haunted graveyard



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: Cracking Balding Abode Antidepressant Drug



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:59 PM
Author: Diverse outnumbered sound barrier



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: orchid useless brakes

Oh, you read?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49339930)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: autistic crackhouse

they're pretty readable

his later stuff more so than the earlier ones he got acclaim for

that said crying of lot 49 is pretty accessible and fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49340460)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:02 PM
Author: Cracking Balding Abode Antidepressant Drug

That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, although Pynchon disowned them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49340682)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 3:54 AM
Author: Angry white woman tailgating you on an empty road

Mason and Dixon was written when he was like 50 and it's about as good as Gravity's Rainbow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49413739)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: The Mongoloid President's Advisor (No Future)

I loved the first half of Mason and Dixon and then it started to drag for me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49413804)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 4:45 AM
Author: metaepistemology is trans

The prose itself is not difficult to read but there is often no linear plot, so if that's what you are looking for then not for you. Also some of the stuff like Gravity's Rainbow is filled with obscure engineering references, mathiness and pop culture nods to the point where noone will catch every one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49413748)



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Date: November 9th, 2025 4:54 AM
Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,.


crying of lot 49 was extremely funny in parts. the whole sub-plot with the midget submarine, for example. gravity's rainbow is fascinating but can take some research, since he was playing around with causality/order of events through a lot of the book.

eg, slothrop's abreactions and erections imply that his timeline is toroidal rather than linear, like the arc of a V2 rocket. the phrase 'beyond the zero' is an entendre for dipping below the 'zero' of a plane or the current reading of a linear timeline and curving back around, thus creating bizarre causal consequences. it's more explicitly science-fiction than other books he did.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Reputation#49413750)