Gravity's Rainbow - don't bother
You'll be none the wiser anyway.

Vineland to Inherent Vice to love TP at his best.

White Noise is smashing - Libra is even more smashing. I think we both love Underworld so no point in my pointing you to that.

EDIT - Pynchon - Against The Day. It's three good books, incomprehensibly crushed into one. Don't try it until he dies when I will cry a bit, but then it might get re-edited properly.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:05, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I find Gravity's Rainbow is brilliant, but the lack of chapters is a real stumbling block.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:10, Reply)

The writing is stunning but I always feel he was trying to do a Heller
But failed to pull it off because Heller is more concise.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:14, Reply)

I dig the writing.
I love a beautifully constructed sentence. When I first read Underworld there were sentences I wanted to frame and hang on my wall.

I'm a sucker for beautiful prose. And girls in stockings.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:17, Reply)

Underworld is something else
But DeLillo is his own man. If you've never read Libra do so.

Pynchon can be beautiful but can slip into self indulgence - I found "The Crying of Lot 49" impossible but "Mason and Dixon" is fantastic. As above, "Against The Day" is superb, but so disjointed it's difficult to follow.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:24, Reply)

The Crying of Lot 49 was quite funny.
Not sure if I prefer girls in stockings to prose though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:28, Reply)

Girls - or, in deference to my age - ladies in stockings would be fine.
They're not knocking on my door right now though, so I take my pleasure from literature.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 20:40, Reply)

If only you had looks like mine.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 21:01, Reply)

If only you had a personality like mine....

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 21:02, Reply)

You mean if only I wasn't a devilishly charming fanny magnet?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 21:04, Reply)

I mean me
Not what you want to be.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 21:06, Reply)

AND SO'S YOUR FACE

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 21:07, Reply)

You've got the looks
I've got the charm.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 21:19, Reply)

Alright Pet Shop Boy.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 22:19, Reply)